SATA Drive Help

[Gnomey]

I have just got a new PC which I have built myself. However I am having trouble getting my SATA drive to work. I have plugged it in correctly (I have checked and double checked that), it picks up in the BIOS (as an IDE drive though). When in XP setup though it cannot find a hard drive to install XP on. I have also had trouble setting up the RAID, I have gone into the RAID menu but cannot get any of the settings to stick (can get the big letter but not the small one). Any ideas on what to do to make it pick up.

Specs:

AMD 64 3500+
2GB Corsair XMS DDR400
XFX 7600GT Extreme Edition
Maxtor 250GB SATA2 16MB Cache Hard Drive

[lil_jimmy_norton]

Re: SATA Drive Help

There should have been a disk that came with your MOBO that has the SATA/RAID drivers on it. When you are first booting from the winXP disk, at the bottom it will say press F6 to load 3rd, party drivers. Do that, and follow the prompts it gives you.

[Gnomey]

Re: SATA Drive Help

I put in the MOBO CD but that didn't work for it, I will have a look for another disk but the driver CD for the MOBO didn't work for it.

[lil_jimmy_norton]

Re: SATA Drive Help

I put in the MOBO CD but that didn't work for it, I will have a look for another disk but the driver CD for the MOBO didn't work for it.

I said disk, not disc. Disk is of the floppy variety, and disc is of the CD variety.

[LoD]

Re: SATA Drive Help

Dont use the raid if you have a single drive. If you have a modern Nf4 or ATI chipset you dont need SATA drivers... excpet when using a raid controller, or using the raid functionality with your chipset.

If your using vanilla SATA, it will be supported native with windows... (assuming you have SP1 or SP2)

[tw33k2514]

Re: SATA Drive Help

i think i heard someware that maxtor sata2 drives were having issues being seen/setup right with the nf4 chipset . lemme dig around and see if i can find a fix cuz i know there is

EDIT: ok found some threads on it http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/show...6&page=6&pp=20

http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/Diamondmax-nForce4-Incompatible-ftopict169993.html

news about it: http://www.nforcershq.com/article4805.html

[Gnomey]

Re: SATA Drive Help

Thanks for the help, got it working in the end Played a little singleplayer this afternoon and it ran great.