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Yeah I thought it was drivers at first. I just noticed my motherboard does not support SATA II which this drive is. http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=a8ve&page=4&cookie%5Ftest=1 Is there a pci controller card I can get so it would be supported or do I have to return the...

I may have found the problem. Someone on another board said my motherboard does not support SATA II. Is there a pci controller card I can get so it would be supported or do I have to return the hard drive for a SATA I?

Also When I have the SATA drive connected to my motherboard and get into windows on my primary drive, in device manager there is a yellow error sign for the VIA SATA Raid Control. I have tried to reinstall the drivers that came with the motherboard, also updated from asus site, and tried the cd...

Yes I installed all drivers. Edit: There are two options in my bios for SATA First, onchip sata controller enable or disable I have that enabled Second, I can toggle sata from RAID or IDE

I have asus A8V-E Deluxe motherboard with the latest bios 1012. I bought a Seagate 400GB SATA II hard drive (ST3400633AS-RK). I have tried installing the drive as a second hard drive with my primary ATA133 maxtor with windows xp already installed. I also tried installing it as a standalone drive...

One more question I forgot to ask. One of my maxtor drives is ATA 100 and the other is ATA 133. Is there a large difference in speed with those? Should I upgrade the one to 133?

Thanks for the help.

I have the asus A8V Deluxe Motherboard. I currently have two maxtor Ultra16 320 GB ATA/133 hard drives. Im about to buy a 500GB SATA hard drive and I was wondering if I could get a little information on how this works. I have never used a SATA drive before. How do I go about setting up the...