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Abit KT7A & KT7A-Raid Don't See Hard Drive During Boot-Up

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LoFlyer

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Okay, I've got one for all of you. I'm building a new 'puter for little SIS. I've installed a 1.4 T-bird 266FSB, KT7A V.1.3 MOBO, 768MB RAM, WD400BB, Sony CD-ROM, Plextor CD-RW, ATI Xpert 2000 PRO, all powered by a 350W Enermax power supply.

When I put this together the first time the system would't recognize the hard drive but did recognize CD-ROM and CD-RW. After much fussin', swappin' cables and IDE sockets, I RMA'd the drive and received another. Put it in and guess what? No drive. Put same drive in current system and it was detected by the BIOS with no prob. So, RMA'd MOBO w/T-bird to vendor. T-bird passed, MOBO didn't. Processor and new KT7A MOBO returned. Installed all components and fired it up. Once again the BIOS failed to recognize the hard drive. Got out my KT7A-Raid MOBO, slated for my new unit, installed chip, RAM and Cooler on board, installed board and video card, hooked up drives and fired it up. IT didn't see the drive EITHER! :disgust:

Back to square one. Tried Ram from current computer, still no go. Put hard drive in current unit, BIOS detected it. Successfully performed fdisk on drive. Time for one more try. Reinstalled hard drive in new system and got same results, BIOS failed to detect hard drive. :frown:

Anybody have this happen to them or got any thoughts on how to correct this. 😀
 
I have the raid version of this board.. Both of my HD's are on the raid controllers.. Neither HD shows on first boot screen, but if I go to the raid section of the bios they are there.. It's been running this way for almost a year..
 
You must load the Htpoint raid drivers when installing windows.
Wait until the Htpoint raid screen comes on and it will see them. pick boot drive in Raid.
Exit and load the raid drivers in windows, windows will still boot up if installed.
 
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