SATA drive not recognized

[attilathehun1]

Ok, I got the the point where it says to press F6 if you have something else
to install and nothing happens. I made the floppy disk with Windows XP and it
went onto one floppy. I was trying to get all on the floppy, because I
should've clicked further and then saw 64bit, Vista, Win2000, and Win XP. I
choose to send WinXP to the floppy drive and it filled half of the diskette.
When I tried to install it when it said to press F6 now, nothing happened.
Anotherwords, it didn't stop loading the OS. I stuck the floppy in anyways,
after the 4th time of trying load it, and still nothing. Then it came to the
spot where it said no drive is recognized. Press F3 to cancel and all the
other bs.
Right now, I can't install it, the hard drive. I'm at a loss.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, attilathehun1

 

[PaulM]

You have to put the SATA drivers on the floppy. When you press F6 it will go
to the floppy and look for the SATA drivers for the SATA drive.

 

[attilathehun1]

What is supposed to happen when the PC says press F6 now if you have a
driver to install or something to that wtf nature. What does the computer do?
I press F6 and it keeps loading up the OS. I tried another keyboard, thinking
maybe the F6 isn't working, but I got the same result. F3 is working on both
keyboards, why not F6. Then it gets to a point where it says to press S if
you have something from the manufacturer to load up, and then I put the
floppy with the WinXP RAID driver in at that time, and nothing. It keeps
going back asking for the manufacturer disk. I don't know wtf to do now. I
did what you said, I loaded up the driver onto the floppy. I didn't load up
all the files. Just the files that said WinXP. That fit on one floppy disk.
Any help from someone who had a brain would be appreciated.
I guess if this doesn't work, I have two IDE brand new hard drives in my
closet. I'll have to find a long parallel cable that will extend to the lower
drive bay to the hard drive enclosure.
I did what you said, I made a floppy from the supplied mobo CD and choose
RAID and then it said Floppy wtf, and then I clicked that to the other wtf
and then choose WinXP. I sent that to the floppy drive and it filled a little
more or less of the floppy diskette.
I'm fed up!
No thanks, attilathehun1

 

[attilathehun1]

I'm back in BIOS and I see SATA Spread Spectrum and it's disabled, maybe if
change it to triangular down it will recognize the SATA?
Let me see more here, brb. In IDE Function Setup there is Primary Master
P10 and Primary Master UDMA and both are set to Auto. There are 5 more
options for both of those 0, 1, 2, 3, 4. and 5. Maybe one of those should be
changed to a value besides Auto?
Well, I think SATA Spread Spectrum should be put back to disabled until I
hear otherwise.
Looks like this is going to drag on another day. This is the first time
I've installed a SATA drive.
Oh yeah, I tried my keyboard that I use on my Dell 8300 that I know F6
works and when I pressed F6 when prompted to do so, nothing happened, the OS
didn't pause and kept loading until it came to a point where it said no mass
device or something to that nature is recognized.
I've had to F3 this setup 10 times or more.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks, attilathehun1

 

[Paul]

I'm back in BIOS and I see SATA Spread Spectrum and it's disabled, maybe if
change it to triangular down it will recognize the SATA?
Let me see more here, brb. In IDE Function Setup there is Primary Master
P10 and Primary Master UDMA and both are set to Auto. There are 5 more
options for both of those 0, 1, 2, 3, 4. and 5. Maybe one of those should be
changed to a value besides Auto?
Well, I think SATA Spread Spectrum should be put back to disabled until I
hear otherwise.
Looks like this is going to drag on another day. This is the first time
I've installed a SATA drive.
Oh yeah, I tried my keyboard that I use on my Dell 8300 that I know F6
works and when I pressed F6 when prompted to do so, nothing happened, the OS
didn't pause and kept loading until it came to a point where it said no mass
device or something to that nature is recognized.
I've had to F3 this setup 10 times or more.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks, attilathehun1

There is a partial reference to what you're doing here.

http://tastycomputers.com/support/download/nvidiaraid-4.htm

The Nvidia SATA interfaces have two modes, either RAID or IDE.
For RAID, you press F6 and install a driver. Then press S and
install a second instance (as the RAID driver stack has
two components).

But if you have disabled RAID (the BIOS may have come with it
disabled), then the default Microsoft driver on the Microsoft
CD should have worked. As long as your WinXP CD is at least
Service Pack 1 level or greater.

I would try without RAID enabled, and see if WinXP will install
without any added drivers, as a first attempt. You don't need to
mess with anything other than the "RAID enabled or disabled"
setting. Leave the rest of it alone.

Paul

 

[attilathehun1]

Well, I did exactly what you said to do. I went to the website, after
looking at it I got spooked and didn't trust you, so I went to the mobo
supplied CD and tried it over again with Windows XP Pro and the same result.
Nothing! I did exactly what you said again, but this time, trusted you, and
unzipped the files from your supplied website and then took the floppy and
waited until the prompted F6 and pressed it, waited for the prompted S,
pressed that, and then loaded up the floppy, pressed ENTER and this message
appeared:
Please insert the disk labeled
Manufacturer-supplied hardware support disk
into Drive A:
*Press ENTER when ready
I pressed S again and the same message. In fact, this same message has
appeared everytime I get to S and press ENTER.
I can follow instructions somewhat, and this is what has been going on.
Maybe it's something I need to do in BIOS. Or it's this mobo that I read the
reviews at newegg.com about how it stunk. Maybe all those reviews were right.
I thought because people were using DDR 400 RAM and there was an addendum
saying not to use DDR 400, to use DDR 333 or under. That's what I did, a 512
stick of DDR 333.
Ok, I tried, but no cigar. So F this, I'm fed the F up! F SATA and
everything that goes with it. I have 2 brand new hard drives that are IDE
hard drives. This new SAMSUNG Spinpoint SP1614C 160 GB can bite me.
-- Thanks for trying!
attilathehun1
attilathehun1

 

[Paul]

Well, I did exactly what you said to do. I went to the website, after
looking at it I got spooked and didn't trust you, so I went to the mobo
supplied CD and tried it over again with Windows XP Pro and the same result.
Nothing! I did exactly what you said again, but this time, trusted you, and
unzipped the files from your supplied website and then took the floppy and
waited until the prompted F6 and pressed it, waited for the prompted S,
pressed that, and then loaded up the floppy, pressed ENTER and this message
appeared:
Please insert the disk labeled
Manufacturer-supplied hardware support disk
into Drive A:
*Press ENTER when ready
I pressed S again and the same message. In fact, this same message has
appeared everytime I get to S and press ENTER.
I can follow instructions somewhat, and this is what has been going on.
Maybe it's something I need to do in BIOS. Or it's this mobo that I read the
reviews at newegg.com about how it stunk. Maybe all those reviews were right.
I thought because people were using DDR 400 RAM and there was an addendum
saying not to use DDR 400, to use DDR 333 or under. That's what I did, a 512
stick of DDR 333.
Ok, I tried, but no cigar. So F this, I'm fed the F up! F SATA and
everything that goes with it. I have 2 brand new hard drives that are IDE
hard drives. This new SAMSUNG Spinpoint SP1614C 160 GB can bite me.
-- Thanks for trying!
attilathehun1
attilathehun1

First of all, "trust" and "spooked" don't apply here. You are doing a
brand new install on an empty disk drive. If it doesn't work, there
is no damage to anything. Only time wasted. It's not like there is
some danger here, like the computer will explode if the install isn't
done right

When I said "partial reference", I meant that the website in question,
is addressing another Nvidia chipset. The information is "by analogy" -
since I cannot find this information for MCP61S, I'm using information
for another Nvidia chipset, as an indication of how it works.

That is why you would not use the files from that site for your
motherboard. What you can do, though, is look at the smaller download
(~400KB), to see what *kind* of files are included on a "makedisk"
driver package.

What I found interesting, is I opened the txtsetup.oem file in a text
editor, and only the RAID drivers are listed in that file. The
SATA IDE drivers were not listed. And as a consequence, there
doesn't appear to be a way for the SATA IDE drivers to be loaded
by pressing F6. Also, the tastycomputers.com web page, mentioned -

"If you have an NVIDIA nForce 4-SLI chipset and are using Parallel ATA
(IDE) hard drive(s) or SATA drives without a RAID configuration,
you should be able to use the Microsoft native storage driver built
into Windows."

So it would appear that the floppy thing, is only if you are installing
in RAID mode. If you switch the BIOS to a non-RAID mode, then the
WinXP SP1 or later, built-in native driver, should work.

If you want to try the RAID driver, you can go into the RAID BIOS
and set up a single SATA drive as a stripe-of-one array. I didn't
suggest that route, because I figured the non-RAID option, and
the WinXP native driver, had better odds of working for you.

Paul