I tried installing a new SATA II hard drive to A8V-E Deluxe motherboard.
But I noticed that bios doesn't detect it. More investigation revealed
that the SATA drive doesn't even spin on the startup. But if I detach
the data cable and leave the power cable then the drive spins.

This board has 24-pin power socket, but my power has only 20-pin cable,
so I have the motherboard attached to that leaving 4 pins untouched. And
it has worked fine. Only problem is this SATA drive. So I started
wondering could this problem be caused by it? And if it is, will it help
if I buy a "24-pin to 20-pin" cable and place it in the middle? Or is
there anything else I could try?

( I have the SATA enabled from bios, RAID is disabled. I tried to
connect to both SATA sockets on the motherboard with two different data
cables. There were no working combinations. )

Motherboard: Asus A8V-E Deluxe
Case: Nexus Breeze (350W)
Hard drive: Western Digital Caviar SE 250GB SATA II
Bios version: 1008

I have also one PATA drive(primary master) and CD-ROM(secondary slave).

Aggro wrote:
> I tried installing a new SATA II hard drive to A8V-E Deluxe motherboard.
> But I noticed that bios doesn't detect it.

I solved my problem.

Western Digital drive has jumpers in it. I needed to add jumper which
sets the speed from 300 -> 150 (SATA II to SATA I) and bios detected it
instantly. Information about jumpers can be found from Western Digital
website.

"Aggro" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Aggro wrote:
>> I tried installing a new SATA II hard drive to A8V-E Deluxe motherboard.
>> But I noticed that bios doesn't detect it.
>
> I solved my problem.
>
> Western Digital drive has jumpers in it. I needed to add jumper which sets
> the speed from 300 -> 150 (SATA II to SATA I) and bios detected it
> instantly. Information about jumpers can be found from Western Digital
> website.
Had the same problem with WD SATA drives, but only on the VIA controller.
They spun up fine on the Promise controller. Go figure.