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cant get SATA to work

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I just bought an 80gb 7200rpm SATA hard drive, along with this stuff

Gigabyte 3d rocket cooler
Gigabyte ga-k8nf-9
Gigabyte 6600GT
Mushkin DDR400 2x512
Raidmax blue case
Athlon Socket 939 3000+

Everything turned on fine. Bios checked my ram, but it said "CPU SPEED 200MHZ". Sometimes it will say "Athlon 64 3000+". I thought something was screwed up, but thats not important. Whats important is getting the stupid SATA hard drive to work.

Bios detects nothing under any hard drive autodetect. I pushed CTL+F1 for advanced options and turned on every SATA thing in there, which did nothing.

pushing F10 to bring up NVIDIA's RAID setup program, shows my 80gb Hitachi. The only way I could get the SATA to work was by using a 1990 conner IDE "spanned" with the 80gb. The conner is louder than anything.

Booting off the XP home cd shows my 80 gig Hitachi as well, but after I reboot from the first stage of installing, my computer pretty much says "hard drive, what hard drive?"

How do I get my motherboard to boot off my stupid SATA drive without raiding in an IDE drive?
 
if you have sata ports on your mb, it will be handeled by the RAID card's bios, all SATA is using the SATA raid card just you dont need to have it as a raid if you dont like, the drive should be detected by the raid card when it initializes but it should NOT show up in your normal bios, the way it would have been detected with older IDE drives, I myself are running with 2 IDE hd's and 2 SATA hds, without raid, 4 seperate drives, the two IDE's are visible as primary master and primary slave in the bios, the sata drives are visible after the computer boots before it would typically go into windows

It's also worth noting that if you try to install windows, windows XP will require the use of the sata controller (raid controller technically but as I said it does NOT have to be configured as a raid) driver disk, as in you'll have to stick in a floppy and have it load the drivers if you want to be able to access the hd to install on
 
Does that board have 2 banks of sata connectors like the A8NSli? four of them are for raid only. AS in ou have to set up a raid array to utilise them, the other ones are the normal ports.
 
You probably found this out already... RAID is enabled in the BIOS as the default for this mobo . Go into the BIOS and disable all the RAID settings, and it should be fine after that.

I have the same mobo and found out about the default RAID settings in some other forums. I disabled the setting from the get go and had no problems building my PC with this mobo. I didn't need to use a RAID floppy during Win XP install. I'm using a single SATA drive, connected to SATA port 3 (in case ports 1&2 aren't locked, which would prevent overclocking).
 
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