>WD SATA can't be seen<

[CmosDriver]

I have an MK8M800 Chaintech mobo that is unable to recognize a newly
purchased WD SATA 250gig HD that I'm trying to use as storage. During
bootups it hasn't seen the HD on either of the 2 connections that I have.
I've gone all thru the BIOS... I.E., Made sure that PnP is set to "No".
I've gone into (Intergrated Peripherals) to (VIA Onchip IDE Device) to
(SATA Mode)... There, I have the options of IDE or RAID. I've changed
it to RAID w/no success. - - -
I've been scouring the Net trying to find out
what needs to be done and have run across that drivers ?maybe? needed
& to use F6 to get this done via floppy... as suggested by this person
who seems to have gone thru something similarI haven't the faintest idea what drivers to look for & also my board
doesn't support floppy drives and I would really NOT prefer to go thru
the changes of connecting one externally. I've also run across suggestions
of updating the BIOS. I was under the impression that once the necessary
changes were made in the BIOS that nothing else further was needed.- -

AnYoNe out there have AnY suggestions At aLL??

THANX N ADVANCE
WB

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I have an MK8M800 Chaintech mobo that is unable to recognize a newly
purchased WD SATA 250gig HD that I'm trying to use as storage.
During bootups it hasn't seen the HD on either of the 2 connections
that I have. I've gone all thru the BIOS... I.E., Made sure that
PnP is set to "No". I've gone into (Intergrated Peripherals) to
(VIA Onchip IDE Device) to (SATA Mode)... There, I have the options
of IDE or RAID. I've changed
it to RAID w/no success. - - -
I've been scouring the Net trying to find out
what needs to be done and have run across that drivers ?maybe?
needed & to use F6 to get this done via floppy... as suggested by
this person who seems to have gone thru something similar
I haven't the faintest idea what drivers to look for & also my board
doesn't support floppy drives and I would really NOT prefer to go
thru the changes of connecting one externally. I've also run across
suggestions of updating the BIOS. I was under the impression that
once the necessary changes were made in the BIOS that nothing else
further was needed.- -

AnYoNe out there have AnY suggestions At aLL??

THANX N ADVANCE
WB

Are you stating that the hardware does not see the drive?

If the hardware does not see the drive in the System BIOS - that's a
hardware issue and you should contact the manufacturer of the hardware
(Chaintech you stated) in that case.