Im working on building two new systems. One is a IDE based older HP motherboard w/ Intel 2GHZ the other a new MSI with AMD 2X64 and SATAII Hard drive. Both I have encountered problems with the drives and recognition with XP I am certain of the pin configuration and basic set up. AM I missing something here?
2007-05-16 05:02:06 · 4 answers · asked by latitude58_8 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
SATA doesn't have "master" and "slave" settings - each drive has its own cable and its own channel to the hard drive controller. So you probably have a driver issue here. IDE drives are supported by Windows using built in drivers, many newer motherboards have too new controllers and you will have to make a driver floppy from the MoBo CD with the SATA drivers. You install this by pressing F6 at the beginning of the Windows install.
With the IDE drive, I have had problems with the "Cable Select" setting that most hard drives come defaulted to. Look on the top of the drive and see how to set the jumper to "Master" and try that. I've had better luck locking down the master/slave setting.
Good Luck
2007-05-16 06:41:22 · answer #1 · answered by TahoeT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
choose extra suggestions. BIOS putting SATA as HDD. you do no longer choose a floppycontinual in a working laptop or workstation anymore. as long as you configure the HDD as SATA and Boot from CD/DVDcontinual first and then boot from HDD then you definitely ought to be able installation homestead windows XP.
2016-10-05 04:27:31 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your running 1 drive in each have you tried using no PINS? and also could be be that your systems only support SATA 1? where your drives are SATA 2 compliant?
2007-05-16 05:17:29 · answer #3 · answered by mojo101178 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you need to install independent raid driver go to hard drive makers website and look in support.
2007-05-16 07:16:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋