General Question about SATA

[JM]

I've got a Compaq computer that's got an ASUS K8S-LA motherboard with two
onboard SATA headers/ports. The computer originally came with an IDE hard
drive. When I install a Seagate 120gb SATA hard drive (either alone or with
the other drive(s), neither bios nor Windows XP setup will detect it. I've
tried both SATA ports and two different SATA cables. I'm using a
molex-to-SATA power adapter, and I can hear the hard drive spin up, but I
can't make it recognize. I do have SATA enabled in bios.

What am I missing?

ty,

jm

 

[ANONYMOUS]

The only thing can see you are missing is that the question is in the
wrong NG. How about:

news://microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware

hth

 

[Guest]

To enable in the BIOS,usually thiers 3 places one must edit,1.Boot device
priority (might be listed as add-in device) 2.Integrated peripherals (ON Chip
Serial ATA) 3.Advanced, OnChip Serial ATA mode (Set to combined or
enhanced mode).Youre board might label diffrent,also,you might need to
press F6 to install SATA controller drivers from the floppy disk.

 

[Guest]

It should ask for you to press the F6 key to load the SATA drivers from a disk.

It is probably a faulty drive. To test that, try it in another computer, if
possible.

Eric,
PC Buyer Beware!
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/

 

[JM]

The only thing can see you are missing is that the question is in the
wrong NG. How about:

news://microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware

hth

Wrong, Mr. Top-Posting Self-Appointed Moderator.

I'm booting XP, and SATA is more than hardware.

Additionally, I received two very good replies . . . and one worthless one.

jm

 

[Steve N.]

The only thing can see you are missing is that the question is in the
wrong NG. How about:

news://microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware

hth

There is nothing at all wrong with posting hardware questions here. If
you read a bit here you'd notice that very many posts concern hardware
issues and nobody besides you has complained about it.

Steve N.