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SATA Drive not detected
Name: Krondo Date: November 8, 2006 at 18:22:24 Pacific OS: Windows XP Pro CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon 3200 64 2x 512
Comment:
I recently purchased a Soltek SL-K890Pro-939 Via K8T890 Chipset. I installed a SATA drive directly to the mainboard and Windows wont detect the drive but the computer does any suggestions?
Name: Krondo Date: November 8, 2006 at 19:20:53 Pacific
Reply:
Sorry to bug yall again but im not sure which driver to get its a bit confusing
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Response Number 8
Name: Sabertooth Date: November 8, 2006 at 20:41:10 Pacific
Reply:
I happen to have a Soltek board (SL-K8AN2E-GR) too and now that I think about it - mine did not require any special drivers for SATA disk recognition and most newer motherboards are like that, provided you've setup the SATA controller to act as an IDE controller, however for RAID it does need a driver.
I would suggest you go into your K890Pro-939 BIOS and set your promise controller on SATA, since about the only related driver to you right now is the RAID one and that's not what you are trying to configure.
If you look under the integrated peripherals section in your BIOS, that option should be there under "Promise Function Select"
Goodluck!
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Response Number 9
Name: Krondo Date: November 8, 2006 at 21:46:37 Pacific
Reply:
yes the primise controller is set to SATA but still wont detect it i still think i need one of those drivers but i dont know which one.
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Response Number 10
Name: Sabertooth Date: November 8, 2006 at 22:17:21 Pacific
Reply:
You have more than one SATA connector on the motherboard don't you? Try the others.
There are only two drivers on Soltek's website and both applies to RAID.
- Promise 20579 RAID Driver
- VIA VT8237 RAID Driver (Use this if all else fails)
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