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seagate hard drive problem
Name: Paul Griesbaum Date: August 15, 2007 at 12:09:45 Pacific OS: win xp sp2 CPU/Ram: 640mb Product: selfmade
Comment:
I'm installing a seagate 500mb sata drive on a system I built using msi motherboard I bought last year. The motherboard is K8M Neo-v/k8t. I can't get it to be recognized in the bios. I enabled the sata in the bios to no avail. I tried taking out the jumper cable because the book said that that is the normal configuration. No luck with that either. Any suggestions?
Name: OtheHill Date: August 15, 2007 at 12:29:33 Pacific
Reply:
Look to see if the drive shows up in Disk Management.
If the drive is SATA II and your MBoard is SATA I you MAY need to set a jumper on the drive for SATA I operation.
This is drive intended to be the boot drive?
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Response Number 2
Name: Tubesandwires Date: August 15, 2007 at 12:32:44 Pacific
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If your mboard supports SATA but not SATA-II, and this drive is SATA-II, not all chipsets that support SATA will recognize a SATA-II drive, even as a SATA drive. You may need to install a jumper on the drive.
If that doesn't help, you may have a connection problem - see the latter part of response 13 there.
If the bios sees the drive but Windows Setup doesn't see the drive, see response 2 there.
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Response Number 3
Name: Tubesandwires Date: August 15, 2007 at 12:37:39 Pacific
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OtheHill - oops - I'm slow on the type as usual - there were no replies when I started that post.
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Response Number 4
Name: jefro Date: August 15, 2007 at 14:36:57 Pacific
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Isn't there a raid feature on that? Maybe like a scsi bios you press some other keystroke before you enter the OS but after bios?
As above the darn cables can break and you'd never know it unless you are like me and did it.
I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.
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Response Number 5
Name: Dave The Snakes Date: August 16, 2007 at 08:44:34 Pacific
Reply:
Jumper pins settings you should have a row of them on the motherboard consult manufacturer for default/correct settings ,,dont mess around with them these are set correctly at the factory!!
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