Hi all, I recently flashed the BIOS on my gigabyte motherboard (GA6XVC7-4X-P) to the most recent version provided by gigabyte (FC) once flashed, to my surprise I could no longer access my second HDD, it wasnt recognised in BIOS, its a 40 gig drive, same as the first except 7200 vs 5600 RPM, windows sees it as an unformatted 420 gig drive, slackware 10.1 sees it as some unholy sized drive.. (like 8 terabytes), when i flashed back (original setting from manufacturer), still the same, cant access the drive in BIOS same config in windows and linux, I'm lost.. what can I do My drives are configured as such Maxtor 40 gig 5600 RPM - master IDE0 Maxtor 40 gig 7200 RPM - slave  IDE0 HP DVD±RW 420i - master IDE1 HP DVD±RW 300i - slave  IDE1 someone please help drive IS recognised in other computers for what it is

Have you tried clearing CMOS with the jumper or removing the battery, and then setting setting the defaults in BIOS again. Don't know about that board or version, but sometimes you are instructed to reset the CMOS setting when loading a new version of BIOS because the new version might have different settings and might use different locations in CMOS for some things.

I would just uninstall the driver and then shut down the puter and pull the IDE plug off of that drive. Reboot to let everything clear. Then shut down again and reinstall the IDE cable to the drive. Then boot up again, but this time go into bios settings and make sure that it is set to auto when it comes down to recognizing the new drive. Then exit and save the new settings. Should load the new drive correctly. Good luck! YO

Yeah, I did the CMOS clearing thing, both physically and through load defaults, its still boned... I still have lots of options to try, next i'll prolly switch around the cables or something crazy like that.. or use it as an excuse to get some cash from my dad for a new system... i like that idea :)

Even though it may have worked before, you have your drive configuration wrong. Try changing it. Maxtor 40 gig 5600 RPM - master IDE0 HP DVD±RW 300i - slave IDE0 HP DVD±RW 420i - master IDE1 Maxtor 40 gig 7200 RPM - slave IDE1 Use 80-wire cables on both channels, & master/slave jumpers...don't use cable select. Why two DVD burners? just curious.... Asus A7N8X-X 1800+ @ 8 x 210MHz 512MB PC3200 Asus Ti4800SE 128MB WinME/WinXP Pro

BTW, you can always flash back to the original BIOS that you had Asus A7N8X-X 1800+ @ 8 x 210MHz 512MB PC3200 Asus Ti4800SE 128MB WinME/WinXP Pro

jam, you may have missed it, but the poster said he did flash back to the original file. Leith I would recommend that you double check the flash files being used to absolutely verify they are intended for your exact version and model of the MBoard. Going back to the original should have restored things. Are you performing the flash from a floppy disk?