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Abit AX8 w/ A64 3000+
Seagate 7200.7rpm 80gb SATA drive
The motherboard does not detect the hard drive in BIOS. Under the hard drive priority list( in the boot devices menu), there is a hard drive listed as SCSI-0 the name of the drive (ST4373497 or something similar). When I turn off the RAID controller, this SCSI-0 drive disappears from the list, leaving only "Bootable Add-In cards." When the bios tries to boot from this mysterious SCSI drive, it says that there is no boot device. Windows XP setup says that it cannot detect any hard drives.
When I press tab to access the raid controller menu, it detects my hard drive, gives me the name, serial number, and capacity. All the data seems accurate. It sees that its an SATA drive and says nothing about SCSI. I only have the one hard drive, though, so I can't setup an array of any kind obviously.
So I figured either the motherboard has an issue or the hard drive is defective...
I tried all four SATA plugs on the motherboard, same results from all. I then plugged in a 36gb Raptor SATA to the motherboard and it was detected and booted from without issue. So the motherboard is not defective because it can detect and boot other hard drives.
I put the Seagate into another computer and it was detected without issues. I formatted it, installed windows on it, and booted from it. I then put it back into the computer with the AX8, and it still is not detected.
I have flashed the BIOS to the latest version, same results.
I have disconnected all unecessary hardware (cd rom drive, floppy drive) and disabled any com ports and serial ports that I didn't need to free up IRQs... same result.
Is there some sort of incompatibility with the drive and the motherboard? I've tried everything I can think of. It makes no sense to RMA the board or the hard drive because they both work perfectly on their own, they just don't work when together. Strangest problem I have ever seen.
I suppose if you guys can't fix it I'll just refund the drive and pickup a Western Digital or something.
Thanks for your help.
Seagate 7200.7rpm 80gb SATA drive
The motherboard does not detect the hard drive in BIOS. Under the hard drive priority list( in the boot devices menu), there is a hard drive listed as SCSI-0 the name of the drive (ST4373497 or something similar). When I turn off the RAID controller, this SCSI-0 drive disappears from the list, leaving only "Bootable Add-In cards." When the bios tries to boot from this mysterious SCSI drive, it says that there is no boot device. Windows XP setup says that it cannot detect any hard drives.
When I press tab to access the raid controller menu, it detects my hard drive, gives me the name, serial number, and capacity. All the data seems accurate. It sees that its an SATA drive and says nothing about SCSI. I only have the one hard drive, though, so I can't setup an array of any kind obviously.
So I figured either the motherboard has an issue or the hard drive is defective...
I tried all four SATA plugs on the motherboard, same results from all. I then plugged in a 36gb Raptor SATA to the motherboard and it was detected and booted from without issue. So the motherboard is not defective because it can detect and boot other hard drives.
I put the Seagate into another computer and it was detected without issues. I formatted it, installed windows on it, and booted from it. I then put it back into the computer with the AX8, and it still is not detected.
I have flashed the BIOS to the latest version, same results.
I have disconnected all unecessary hardware (cd rom drive, floppy drive) and disabled any com ports and serial ports that I didn't need to free up IRQs... same result.
Is there some sort of incompatibility with the drive and the motherboard? I've tried everything I can think of. It makes no sense to RMA the board or the hard drive because they both work perfectly on their own, they just don't work when together. Strangest problem I have ever seen.
I suppose if you guys can't fix it I'll just refund the drive and pickup a Western Digital or something.
Thanks for your help.