SATA connectors?

LiamJH · 21 Dec 2006 at 14:47

Hi guys,

Just put my first build together - all fired up nicely but i cannot get the BIOS to recognise the SATA hard drive i have in there. Just for my own piece of mind - how many cables should be attached to the SATA hard drive?

Raikiri · 21 Dec 2006 at 14:54

One power cable and one s-ata cable for data.

rpstewart · 21 Dec 2006 at 15:09

As above for cables.

Check that the BIOS is expecting a single drive and isn't configured in RAID mode.

LiamJH · 21 Dec 2006 at 15:11

Yer, two cables connected, neither BIOS nor windows setup recognise the drive though

ANDARIAL · 21 Dec 2006 at 15:28

recheck cables,swap for different if you can.recheck bios to make sure sata ports are enabled

LiamJH · 21 Dec 2006 at 15:34

Changed cables, still nowt

ANDARIAL · 21 Dec 2006 at 15:44

rechecked the bios to see that sata is enabled?
put your ear to the hdd to check that it is actually getting/using power ?

basmic · 21 Dec 2006 at 15:54

You sure you don't have RAID enabled?

Not 100% sure, but I'd guess the drives would show in the RAID BIOS, and the RAID array/s would show in the BIOS.

LiamJH · 21 Dec 2006 at 15:55

There is no option to enable or disable SATA - it's set to auto.

It's not set to RAID.

basmic · 21 Dec 2006 at 15:58

I would consider updating the BIOS if you have an older BIOS than the latest one shown on the Asus website. Just in case there are any bugs ironed out in the newer one.

mikeymike · 21 Dec 2006 at 15:59

Also if your drive is SATA 2 but the motherboard is only SATA 1, check the back of your drive, it may have a jumper that needs to be changed for it to run on older SATA1 motherboards.

LiamJH · 21 Dec 2006 at 16:13

P5B Delux supports SATA 3 according to the Manual, Hard Drive is SATA 3...

Curiosityx · 21 Dec 2006 at 16:26

Is the drive larger than 137Gb?

Does your motherboard support LBA's larger than 137Gb?

If not try a BIOS update for your motherboard.

BillytheImpaler · 21 Dec 2006 at 16:30

LiamJH said:
P5B Delux supports SATA 3 according to the Manual, Hard Drive is SATA 3...

There's no SATA3 yet AFAIK. SATA2 is the latest.

LiamJH · 21 Dec 2006 at 16:31

Hmmm, there doesn't appear to be much noise (if any) coming from the hard drive if i'm honest. It's a Samsung Spinpoint 400Gb. I know they're supposed to be very quiet - but this is silent, i think lol!

LiamJH · 21 Dec 2006 at 16:32

BillytheImpaler said:
There's no SATA3 yet AFAIK. SATA2 is the latest.

Well it's written that way in the manual

FrostedNipple · 21 Dec 2006 at 16:33

hmmm, sounds like rma time ot me, hdd's are always going wrong, perhaps it was a rough delevery journy

mikeymike · 21 Dec 2006 at 16:33

by sata 3 i think he means sata 3gb/s which is the transfer speed for sata 2, i didnt realise it was the mobo in your sig, i withdraw my suggestion is it is obviously sata 2 compatible motherboard

BillytheImpaler · 21 Dec 2006 at 16:33

LiamJH said:
Hmmm, there doesn't appear to be much noise (if any) coming from the hard drive if i'm honest. It's a Samsung Spinpoint 400Gb. I know they're supposed to be very quiet - but this is silent, i think lol!

Does it hum or vibrate at all? Are you sure it's even turning on? Even if the mobo didn't see it or anything it would still spin up as long as it had power.

ANDARIAL · 21 Dec 2006 at 16:35

try a different sataa power cable or a different molex
from the psu i mean
it may be a faulty power connector from the psu

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