No harddrive detected

Desert Rain

Desert Rain

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I have just upgraded the kids PC with an ASUS A8V Deluxe mobo and a Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 sata2 hd.

I don't know if I am doing something stupid, but I cannot get the bios to see the hd. This is the first time I have used an ASUS board, so the bios is a bit unfamiliar.

I have tried both the via and promise connectors and am now beginning to wonder if the hd is borked. I can here it whirring, so it has power and I tried it in my machine, but that didn't detect it either.

Can anyone offer any help please :)

Regards

Peter
 
I don't think I have these, where would I get them from (the hd was oem and arrived as just the bare drive) :confused: Is this a driver issue if the bios just isn't detecting the drive on first start-up (ie windows hasn't been installed yet)?
 
Is this without windows installed? If it is just get the drivers for the sata off the manufacturers website. If windows has not been installed you need to get the sata drivers off the website for a floppy disk and when installing windows press the key to install the drivers for the disk when it asks
 
No hard Drive Connected

I had the same problem with a Hitachi hard drive very recently. I take it that it is an internal drive? The first thing I found was that I had connected it to the wrong connector on the ribbon cable - so it would be worth trying the other connector as a starting point. If the BIOS still doesn't recognise the hard drive & it isn't recognised in another pc then there could possibly be a problem with the Hard Drive itself - in that case its worth taking it back & asking the vendor to test it to confirm that it is "dead". Hope this helps

Marie.

FYI my Hitachi disk was actually warped so even when the BIOS did recognise it the drive made some horrible grinding noises - I got a full refund & changed my drive to a Seagate one which works perfectly.
 
Desert Rain said:
I have just upgraded the kids PC with an ASUS A8V Deluxe mobo and a Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 sata2 hd.

I don't know if I am doing something stupid, but I cannot get the bios to see the hd. This is the first time I have used an ASUS board, so the bios is a bit unfamiliar.

I have tried both the via and promise connectors and am now beginning to wonder if the hd is borked. I can here it whirring, so it has power and I tried it in my machine, but that didn't detect it either.

Can anyone offer any help please :)

Regards

Peter
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Have that mobo - when you got it did you reset CMOS? Because the SATA controllers (2 on this board) might be disabled. Also, I've found that you need the SATA drivers when installing Windows XP any revision :mad: You can find the latest drivers (VIA Hyperion v5.08A) here. Should be a folder 'drvdisk' in the ZIP, simply copy everything inside that folder onto a diskette (about 400 kb) :cool:

EDIT: BTW this package, VIA Hyperion v5.08A is the same one you run (SETUP.EXE) after installing Windows XP before any other drivers especially GFX :)
 
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hp7909,

Thanks for that, I will try those drivers when I get home tonight. I did clear the CMOS and as far as I can tell both the via and promise controllers are enabled. However, this is my first ASUS mobo and the bios is a bit unfamiliar. For a single SATA hd on the via controller, can you tell me how the bios should be set?

Cheers

Peter :D
 
Desert Rain said:
hp7909,

Thanks for that, I will try those drivers when I get home tonight. I did clear the CMOS and as far as I can tell both the via and promise controllers are enabled. However, this is my first ASUS mobo and the bios is a bit unfamiliar. For a single SATA hd on the via controller, can you tell me how the bios should be set?

Cheers

Peter :D
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I'm using the VIA controller (OnChip SATA Boot ROM) with 2 hard disks (not RAIDed). I've disabled the Promise one (OnBoard Promise Controller).

When system boots, the VIA screen after POST shows nothing in its channels? Because that could mean definately the hard dsik & not motherboard. Also, check if the VIA controller is set as a boot device in the Boot menu (BIOS).

I hope you have flashed to latest BIOS (1017 here) because this board was like THEE ORIGINAL Socket 939 mobo with many issues including not working with the 90nm Athlons :eek: But all resolved with BIOS updates. You can flash staright to the latest one.

Em, and ALSO if the hd's SATA2 you need to disable SATA2 features - should be like a jumper or something because A8V's only SATA :)
 
hp7909,

No, the via screen doesn't show anything. I have flashed the bios and loaded the via drivers, but still no luck. HD is about to be RMAed :( and will see how I get on with a new drive.

Thanks for your help.

Peter
 
Mikey 1280,

Yes, although it didn't have a jumper, I found one and the seagate instructions in their FAQ - and that didn't work either :confused:
 
I had the same problem. It is to do with the drivers though. As I don't have a floppy drive, the only way I got round it was to get a custom boot CD from my PC manufacturer. I tried to make my own but that faield miserabley and I dont know why. I have a Maxtor running on the Prmoise controller. This controlelr is weird though. It basically runs RAID with one disk if set to do that. Mien came like that. I changed it to IDE but it bluescreened on boot. Probably need a format, but I can't be bothered :p
 
Update. It was a dodgy drive. I RMA'ed it to Seagate and a new one arrived today. Put it in the PC and away we went with no problems.

Thanks for all the help.

Peter :)
 
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