Built My Own Computer. (I'm new to this Forum)

Intelligent Bear · Post by **Intelligent Bear** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 8:51 am

Okay, I built my own computer. Ordered the parts from Newegg. I put it all together and now I have to set up the BIOS and I wanna make a boot disk. Everything seems to be fine...except the HDD. It's a Sata. It's connected with a Sata power supply. My power supply is 580W so I don't think that's the problem. My MoBo has Sata Raid and SataII inputs. My HDD uses the Sata Raid Cable. MoBo has 4 Sata Raid inputs and I've tried it in all of them. I manuals tried to make the MoBo detect it, but it still came up with nothing. I hope someone can help. Thanks in advance.

MoBo: http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Produc ... =1&LanID=0

Post by **Apoptosis** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:08 pm

Welcome to the forums... When you post enter the BIOS and load the defaults... The board should be able to post this way so you can start to load your operating system of choice.

Intelligent Bear · Post by **Intelligent Bear** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 4:15 pm

Hmmm, it seems my only problem now is that it won't recognize my HDD. Not sure why.

Intelligent Bear · Post by **Intelligent Bear** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 4:42 pm

I heard that Sata and Windows don't mix or something. Like Sata was make after XP so it can't recocognize it. I dunno. Anyone know anything about it?

KnightRid · Post by **KnightRid** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 6:27 am

Is it recognized inside your bios?

Some bios' have to be set to make the SATA drives the boot devices.

page 3-12 of your manual - do you have the SATA set for IDE or RAID? - it needs to be IDE it seems.

Without seing the bios I am hard pressed to say exactly what settings to change.

Try disabling the ide channels if none of the above works, try seeing if you can change the boot device order to have SATA first.....

I am thinking if you have the sata ON and the setting to IDE it should boot as long as you dont have anything on the IDE channels.

Let us know

Mike

Post by **dicecca112** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 11:13 am

Intelligent Bear wrote:I heard that Sata and Windows don't mix or something. Like Sata was make after XP so it can't recocognize it. I dunno. Anyone know anything about it?

that is true to a point. In order to install windows on a SATA raid system, you need to load the SATA raid drivers from a floppy. On a none raid system windows has no problem with sata drivers. You may still need to load drivers, depending on how old your copy of XP is, but it works