Asus A7V133 no hd detection.

[Oxy]

I just put together my second computer and its a amd duron 850Mhz processor running on
Asus A7V133 mobo. For some reason the bios doesnt detect my harddrive. It doesnt work in either autodetect nor when i enter in the harddrive parameters.
My harddrive is a Quantum fireball 8.4Gb.

I would be greatful if someone has any idea how to make it work. Does it need any specific setup?

 

[sohcrates]

are you sure your IDE cables aren't backwards?

 

[Oxy]

Yeah i am, the 10th tine is blank so you can't put in in wrong.

 

[sohcrates]

word on the street was that there is an option to actually turn on or off an entire IDE channel...look for it in the bios

ALSO, are you plugged into the ata100 or the normal ata controller?

 

[Oxy]

They are both ata100 channels. Although one is for the promise raid card.

 

[sohcrates]

well, i guess i can rephrase...do you have it plugged into the normal IDE channel or the BLUE PROMISE channel? cause i'm pretty sure bios won't pick up hard drive connected to the promise controller.

 

[Oxy]

I tried both. Any idea how if i should make the harddrive the master or slave and the cd-rom.

 

[sohcrates]

can you re-state that? it wasn't worded well.

 

[Toonster]

I have the A7V but I would think they should be fairly similar. If you have it plugged into the ATA100 port, make sure you enable load atabios in the BIOS settings. With mine, my hd doesn't show up in the BIOS either but the ATA Bios recognizes it during bootup. I don't know why it wouldn't recognize it in the IDE port though.

Edit:

Just checked my manual - the actual setting is called Onboard ATA device first. This allows devices on the ATA100 channel to be bootable.

 

[Kntx]

If you have 2 things on that channel, try unplugging one of them and see if it detects then. If two drive on the same channel are jumpered as masters (or slaves I guess) sometimes it won't detect properly.

 

[Antony]

My a7v133 had this problem. While running only one drive on the channel, I took off the Master/Slave jumper. The drive was then recognized.

 

[Andy22]

This mobo has 4 IDE connectors...two for the ATA100 Promise controller and two for standard IDE. Make sure it is NOT plugged into either of the blue connectors but is plugged into the IDE Primary and set it to auto in the BIOS. Unless the HD, Cable or connector is bad, it will see it.

 

[mchammer187]

my friend had this exact same problem with his A7V. If you are trying to install win 2k on it there are special drivers from ASUS you need to get. To get it to boot for 2000 i had to set it as a 5th ATA boot device
ie 1. floppy
2. HD (set to none)
3. CD-ROM (i believe)
4. zip (or somethin like that)
5. misc (i think - set this to ATA100 device)
and after that it worked fine took me forever to figure that out.
hope this helps

 

[Andy22]

MC: He's not getting as far as booting the OS, he can't see the drive in the BIOS. I don't believe it has anything to do with his choice of OS.