The motherboard is a Mach Speed Viper K8M8MS Socket 754. The first hard drive is a Seagate 250GB EIDE HD 7200/8MB/ATA-100, and the second hard drive is a Seagate 320GB Serial ATA HD 7200/16MB/SATA-3G.
I am fairly savvy with computers, but when I plug in the power and SATA cables to the power supply and motherboard, the BIOS simply doesn't pick up on the new SATA hard drive. It does stop at the black screen rather than boot up, but even a manual search does not turn up the drive. All suggestions are much appreciated. Thanks!
2007-02-27 04:36:32 · 7 answers · asked by serendipitous_333 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Often times, the SATA header on the motherboard is disabled by default.
Go into the bios and check to make sure.
2007-02-27 04:41:23 · answer #1 · answered by Bjorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you thoroughly checked the BIOS for a section that instructs the BIOS on which drive to boot to?
I've seen BIOS try to boot automatically to a newly installed SATA Drive, then found the section that I could adjust the Boot Sequnce back to my IDE Drive.
Then, once it booted I was able to setup the new drive with Windows Disk Management...format, etc.
I have also seen BIOS where there was no choice and it always wants to boot to SATA Drive first. In that case, I cloned the IDE to the SATA, made the SATA the boot drive, then reformatted the IDE as the secondary drive.
Good Luck !
2007-02-27 04:49:29 · answer #2 · answered by John N 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think of you like helping cables on the motherboard to connect a SATA no longer undemanding disk. no rely if it is not already there, you may attempt looking a SATA card. Alternately , in the experience that your laptop has usb port, you may purchase an exterior usb casing for the SATA hd, and can connect it as an exernal hd.
2016-11-26 02:06:47 · answer #3 · answered by kirodimal 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would disconnect the ide cable, and also try the sata cable on a different connection on the motherboard, since if it doesnt detect in the BIOS, then it possible the drive could be faulty, does it sound like the drive is spinning when you turn on the machine.
2007-02-27 04:44:28 · answer #4 · answered by Paultech 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On the back of both HD's there should be pins that select what the HD should boot up as, and say the 1st hard drive is in the IDE port. it needs to be The master/primary drive and the SATA drive may need to be set up to be a Slave/secondary drive.
to determine the port to set up the master and slave there should be a sticker that shows you on the back of the hard drive.
2007-02-27 04:43:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try switching the pin on the hard drive from master to slave. I think you may have both get as master. Look on the top of the hard drive it should show you slave and master settings
the pin is either black or white and it looks something like this
:::: with the pin covering 2 brass rods. good luck
2007-02-27 05:22:20 · answer #6 · answered by c0mplicated_s0ul 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Did you Try and load the motherboard Drivers to see if they are all loaded?
2007-02-27 04:42:59 · answer #7 · answered by HAWKEYE 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋