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RealMentalCase

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The 200gig drive you tried was an IDE interface? Check you SATA cables connection again. Maybe it was not seated properly. Look in the bios and see if the SATA controller is enabled. Try clearing the CMOS settings see if that helps resolve the issue also. Also, check the WD drives jumper settings. By default, it should either have no jumpers or the jumpers would be shorting pins 1 and 2.
 
Probley need to set the SATA controller in the BIOS to IDE mode instead of RAID or AHCI. If you want those features you'll need windows drivers.
 
MrMitch and HardwareGuru gave ya good advice. are you using a PSU that has connector for SATA? check those, and/or any adapters for the power connections to the drives.

i had one of the ECS MoBo's you are using now, and i had to update the BIOS for CPU support and because of HDD being set incorrectly by auto in setup.

i am fairly sure one of the things listed by the previous posts will correct your problem, but just incase they dont you may want to look at the things i mentioned.

gl:D
 
HardwareGuru said:
The 200gig drive you tried was an IDE interface? Check you SATA cables connection again. Maybe it was not seated properly. Look in the bios and see if the SATA controller is enabled. Try clearing the CMOS settings see if that helps resolve the issue also. Also, check the WD drives jumper settings. By default, it should either have no jumpers or the jumpers would be shorting pins 1 and 2.
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The HD i used was a sata / cables connections are good / cleared CMOS and the HD's don't have any jumpers :(

MrMitch said:
Probley need to set the SATA controller in the BIOS to IDE mode instead of RAID or AHCI. If you want those features you'll need windows drivers.
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Thats how i got it to see the 200 gig hd and had the same settings when i tried the 2x250 gig hds :(

xxGriff said:
MrMitch and HardwareGuru gave ya good advice. are you using a PSU that has connector for SATA? check those, and/or any adapters for the power connections to the drives.

i had one of the ECS MoBo's you are using now, and i had to update the BIOS for CPU support and because of HDD being set incorrectly by auto in setup.

i am fairly sure one of the things listed by the previous posts will correct your problem, but just incase they dont you may want to look at the things i mentioned.

gl:D
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I'm starting to think its a bios update so when i tried to with a floppy it won't let me !!! :mad:

Can you tell me how and what files you used ? :(

I think i'm not doing it right !
 
Are you sure the SATA controller is turned on? The 200GB drive is also SATA? Hard to believe you'd need a BIOS update just to recognize a hard drive, a new CPU maybe, but not a hard drive.
 
I used 1.1e dated 1/25/05

i made a boot disk using DrFlash but you can use any boot disk you wish, i just prefer the no-nonsense boot floppy.

at the command prompt just type the name of the flash util space and the bin file

AWDFLSH XXXXX.BIN (enter)

you need to make sure your BIOS is not write protected.

if you already know how...cool, just trying to help.
 
MrMitch said:
Probley need to set the SATA controller in the BIOS to IDE mode instead of RAID or AHCI. If you want those features you'll need windows drivers.
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This just happened to me an hour ago when i first started up my new build. Went straight into bios, saw my 3 HDs (2x 320gb sata, and 1x 80gb ide I'm from my old machine with all my backups and divers) and fiddled with some settings. Put in the winxp cd, rebooted, getting ready to install and onoes! the 2 sata HDs had disappeared :( turns out I had enabled raid.. woops.

In other news.. these HDs are taking forever to format :/
 
RealMentalCase said:
I picked up a ECS-PT800CE-A and two WD Caviar SE 250gb sata 3.0Gb/s hard drives
and the board can't find the hard drives !

I've tried an 200gb hd i had laying around and the board saw that !

Has anyone else had a problem like this with this board ?

Links:

Board=http://www.ecsusa.com/ECSWebSite/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?detailid=423&CategoryID=1&DetailName=Specification&MenuID=1&LanID=9

Hard drives=http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16822136113
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First: you have a mobo with ViA VT8234 southbridge, that supports ONLY SATA1 (1.5 Gb/s). :p
You must set the jumpers on those WD2500AAJS's to SATA1 mode ! here is how... LOL
In the BIOS under the "VIA OnChip IDE Device" enable it and set the "SATA Mode" to IDE or Native, it should be some similar value (NOT RAID - if you do so, you'll need F6 floppy, headaches, bleh...).
Under "Standard CMOS Features" set the acces mode to Auto, if that doesn't work, set it to LBA (or Large) - it should work in that case if you encounter problems during OS installation. ;)
The last BIOS is 1.1e, if you have a Prescott probably it helps for better CPU/RAM compatibility.
 
Seb1 said:
First: you have a mobo with ViA VT8234 southbridge, that supports ONLY SATA1 (1.5 Gb/s). :p

The last BIOS is 1.1e, if you have a Prescott probably it helps for better CPU/RAM compatibility.
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BIOS updates are cumulative. yes it is labeled as addresses issues for Prescot cores, but all previous "fixes" are included as well. regardless it corrected some issues i had with my ECS board, and was not so sluggish in transfers.
 
Seb1 said:
First: you have a mobo with ViA VT8234 southbridge, that supports ONLY SATA1 (1.5 Gb/s). :p
You must set the jumpers on those WD2500AAJS's to SATA1 mode ! here is how... LOL
In the BIOS under the "VIA OnChip IDE Device" enable it and set the "SATA Mode" to IDE or Native, it should be some similar value (NOT RAID - if you do so, you'll need F6 floppy, headaches, bleh...).
Under "Standard CMOS Features" set the acces mode to Auto, if that doesn't work, set it to LBA (or Large) - it should work in that case if you encounter problems during OS installation. ;)
The last BIOS is 1.1e, if you have a Prescott probably it helps for better CPU/RAM compatibility.
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IT IS ALIVE !!! :eek:

I tried the jumpers on the hd's and BINGO :D

Just installed XP PRO and next update the bios !

THANK YOU !
 
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