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This is probably not new, but nobody has actually had THIS problem, and I have searched everywhere.

My new computer:

LANPARTY PRO875B
Thermaltake W0014 Silent Purepower 480W
Intel Pentium 4/ 2.8C GHz
HIS x800PRO Excalibur
Geil Value Series 184 Pin 1GB DDR PC-3200
Western Digital 80GB 7200RPM SATA
Western Digital Raptor 36.7GB 10,000RPM SATA
Lite-On Black 52X32X52X16 Combo Drive
SONY Black 1.44MB 3.5inch Floppy Disk Drive
Windows XP Home Edition

Okay, both my hard drives don't get detected, I went through all the things in BIOS, enabling RAID for SATA, tried what DFI said for their settings, and tried about all stuff. I truely need help. One thing is that sometimes on certain settings it detects a WDS MAMMOTH, having no idea what that is. I tried even trying to install windows on that, and it just freezes beforehand. Even in the RAID utility that I press CTRL+H to get into, it doesn't show the drives. Windows doesn't detect the hard drives ever, even with 5 different kinds of control drivers. I tried Legacy and SATA power (not both at same time), and have the SATA connectors connected to the mobo.

I've struggled for a day on this, and would love for any feedback.
 
Did you hit F6 at the start of Windozes install.
Doing that will alowe you to install your SATA drivers from your floppy disk.
After that Windozes should find your drives.

Luck......... :D
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What are they jumpered to? The SATA I guess it doesn't matter, but if your IDE one is by itself you need to make sure its jumpered for "single/master" instead of just "master" or "slave". Its a WD thing mainly.
 
Don't touch the jumpers on an SATA drive. Those are not to set Master/Slave/CS like on an IDE drive, they are for power management I believe and are set correctly at the factory.


I'm curious, why did you enable RAID on two different size SATA drives? You definately don't want to do that with your current setup.

Are you trying to install Windows to these drives?

You will probably have to configure the drives in the SATA RAID setup screen. Just don't create a RAID array.

SATA is still very new and I for one have yet to do what you are attempting to do.
 
Yes I pressed F6 in windows setup when it said it, I didn't touch the SATA jumpers, like it said on the HD, but I am trying to jump the DVD rom to master, but the mobo jumpers don't work, or I don't even know how to use them, either way. And I tried RAID and EVERYTHING else, not JUST raid. And yes, I am trying to install windows on the raptor. Plus what SATA raid screen are you talking about? The peripherals in the BIOS with the combined mode and enhanced mode and all that or the RAID screen in the next screen where you press CTRL+H, I only have the two.
 
The CTRL - H screen.

You will probably have to define the "RAID" before the drives are detected.


and from what I am reading, SATA drives do not detect in the bios.
 
Yes, but it says no drives, and in that screen I try to do anything and it says I need more disk drives.
 
check the manufactures web site and see if there are any updates available for that MB
 
It sounds more like a configuration problem instead of an issue. What I mean is, you may want to go all through the manual, the FAQ's on the website, etc. to make sure you are choosing the right options in the controller. Some controllers have strange ways of describing their options.
 
My friend had this problem with his hard drive. but he was on IDE. have you tried to put the drives onto IDE and boot them?
 
I followed all the DFI Faqs and it just says what I have done already, and yes I tried putting the hds on IDE mode, but it just doesn't work either. And any updates for my mb don't fix anything even closely related to my problem.
 
Alright...

Try this, in the bios for boot order

1 cd-rom
2 sata drives (might be called scsi)
3 doesnt matter

Throw your windows disk in, when it first shows up the setup its gonna ask you to hit F6 for third party scsi controller drivers. Hit F6 (a few times never hurts) it will load a bunch of files and then ask for a the drivers off of a floppy.

Throw the floppy in there and leave it in there till setup says to remove it.

This should get you to the point where the windows setup will find the drives.



Note, if this doesnt work, make sure the drives are even spinning up. If they are spinning up, if you can try them in another computer and see if you can even see them else where.

If the drives are fine, then it sounds like you may just have a bum motherboard that doesn't like sata.
 
Also reset thec cmos before you begin again.
Maybe changeing setting settings in the bios has disrupped something so set it back to default.

Ps, My SATA drives show up in the bios as an alpha-numeric string.

Luck......... :D
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