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Hi All,
I decided to use a small bit of my tax return to upgrade my aging machine a little bit and, of course, I need some help. I currently have a Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro (Non-Sli) board and a IDE HDD running WinXP Pro. I purchased a Segate SATA Drive ( http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148298 ) which was going to swap for my IDE drive (Possibly keeping the IDE drive for file storage). Anywho, I started to swap things out, I made sure that i had the most recent BIOS and the drivers for the SATA controller were upgraded.
Now, the problem I am having is that when i connect the SATA drive and enable the SATA via. the BIOS is that the computer just hangs on startup. By "Hang" I mean it displays the SATA controller information, then it displays the drive model, and then a blinking cursor and then it just sits there. I have tried to set the boot order to CD ROM only with the hope of just popping into XP setup but it just hangs before that as described above.
My board only supports 150MB/s SATA and the drive i purchased has a jumper which allows that speed and it is set properly. The BIOS has 2 settings for the SATA: turn the SATA on and use it for ATA or RAID mode, and turn the RAID function on and use it for BASE or RAID mode. I have tried every combination of this as well.
I dont have another SATA drive and/or board to test this drive on so that is out the window. I have also disconnected / removed all non-necessary devices from the board as well. Currently i only have my graphics card (8600 GT AGP) and CD Roms (IDE) connected.
Any suggestions or input you could provide would be greatly appreciated!
I decided to use a small bit of my tax return to upgrade my aging machine a little bit and, of course, I need some help. I currently have a Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro (Non-Sli) board and a IDE HDD running WinXP Pro. I purchased a Segate SATA Drive ( http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148298 ) which was going to swap for my IDE drive (Possibly keeping the IDE drive for file storage). Anywho, I started to swap things out, I made sure that i had the most recent BIOS and the drivers for the SATA controller were upgraded.
Now, the problem I am having is that when i connect the SATA drive and enable the SATA via. the BIOS is that the computer just hangs on startup. By "Hang" I mean it displays the SATA controller information, then it displays the drive model, and then a blinking cursor and then it just sits there. I have tried to set the boot order to CD ROM only with the hope of just popping into XP setup but it just hangs before that as described above.
My board only supports 150MB/s SATA and the drive i purchased has a jumper which allows that speed and it is set properly. The BIOS has 2 settings for the SATA: turn the SATA on and use it for ATA or RAID mode, and turn the RAID function on and use it for BASE or RAID mode. I have tried every combination of this as well.
I dont have another SATA drive and/or board to test this drive on so that is out the window. I have also disconnected / removed all non-necessary devices from the board as well. Currently i only have my graphics card (8600 GT AGP) and CD Roms (IDE) connected.
Any suggestions or input you could provide would be greatly appreciated!
