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I had a drive do this once, it was fine on one system and broken on another.

Do you have access to another computer??? Your drive may need a firmware update in order to function with your new board.

You,d need to know the brand, then go to their website.......catch 22 though because you need a functional computer to load the new firmware.
Or borrow something from a friend and see if you can load the OS then update the firmware on your new drive.......or just RMA it......sometimes bad luck is just bad luck.

another idea, change the cables....might be a bad cable, and place the drive in another port location.

The only reason I recommended that you have only the HDD and CD plugged in is, the fewer variables in troubleshooting the better.
 
Figured it was that power connector. It gives power to the bus that the video card is on, I believe. I wouldn't RMA the drive until you have ruled out other possibilities. Make sure you have it set as the 1st drive in the boot menu or boot priority list.
 
Ok so I am installing windows, Finally, after an epic 3 day battle. Turns out, having a SATA dvd wasn't good, it wasn't 'bootable'. I am pretty sure the drive works though, can't be sure just yet (expanding files 55%)
Buying an IDE drive allowed me to install. Recognized the disk first try...
Thanks again for all of your help
 
The sata drive should have worked......

there may be something in the BIOS you are missing?? or maybe it's a bad drive??
try the firmware update I mentioned before you RMA it.

glad the IDE drive did the trick.:D
 
Glad you got it working. Not sure why the SATA drive didn't work, but the important thing is that everything is working now.

Any pics of your new rig? :)
 
Did you plug your SATA DVD drive into the orange SATA slots?

I believe those belong to the Asus Xpert Drive gimmick. Only works for hard-drives only. Not DVD drives.
 
mnewxcv said:
my rig recently shit the bed, and im pretty sure its the mobo because its not shutting down when i hold the power button, and id think it should do that even if any other component were bad, with the exception of maybe the psu.
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"Gave up the ghost" would be much more polite and adult than saying "My rig recently shit the bed".
 
I looked in the ASUS P6T Deluxe manual......page 2-30.....

The orange ports are for SAS HDD only.
The black ports are for HDD and optical drives.

Maybe that is the problem here???
 
BladeVenom said:
That it's dead. The soul has left the body.
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ah makes sense. actually I'm glad he commented me, I have been letting my class on the internet slide a little, I appreciate the suggestion. have a good one
 
you may also want to check the SATA IDE/AHCI settings on the SATA drives. (in the BIOS) I have run into problems with that before.
 
mnewxcv said:
what does gave up the ghost mean? :confused:
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give up the ghost

1. to stop trying to do something because you know that you will not succeed. She'd been trying to break into acting for ten years without success and was just about to give up the ghost.
2. if a machine gives up the ghost, it stops working. We've had the same television for fifteen years and I think it's finally about to give up the ghost.
 
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