ATA drive not recognized

[Captk]

Just finished putting togehter new system, MSI K8t NEO-V motherboard, Athlon 64 3400+ cpu, 1gb mushkin memory. When starting up to load windows xp, it says no hard drive on system. I have a WD 80 gb SATA hard drive, HDD light goes on but is not recognized. Any suggestions?
Thanks, Ken

 

[gsaldivar]

Is the drive configured properly in BIOS?

 

[Captk]

How do I do that? I was told the system should recognize the drive. I don't see anywhere in the bios that would allow mw to define a sata drive. I also tried using the floppy sata raid drivers during windows load. no help with those drivers.

 

[gsaldivar]

http://www.msicomputer.com/support/sup_tshoot.asp#3_3

 

[Captk]

Followed the instruction there already, press f6 and select the drivers, windows still does not recognize any hard drives(sata)

 

[engineereeyore]

I have an MSI K8N-Neo4 motherboard and before I could get it to recognize my SATA drive, I had to disable the RAID functions. Go into your BIOS and turn off everything that has anything to do with RAID, unless you plan on using the RAID function. Otherwise, you have to configure the drive first through the on-board RAID utility before anything will see it, motherboard, Windows, anything.

 

[Captk]

I can't find anything with raid in it. I checked all my options on the bios with no mention of raid.

 

[engineereeyore]

what motherboard do you have? you listed a MSI K8T-Neo-V, but I don't see a Neo-V on their website.

 

[Captk]

try this
http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K8T_Neo-V&class=mb

 

[engineereeyore]

wow, the manual for that board really sucks. i'm not sure what to tell you. since the motherboard supports RAID 0/1, there has to be some setting somewhere, i just don't know where to tell you to look. also, i know those boards are usually tricky. my last MSI board required me to have the motherboard options for both PATA and SATA enabled in order to have it detect the SATA drive, and i have no idea why. sometimes MSI board are cake to setup, and sometimes they are a severe pain in the butt. if there are no RAID settings, you'll probably want to mess with the PATA and SATA settings in the bios and try to find a combination that works.

 

[Captk]

Sent an email to MSI last night. Responded this morning that the drive I have, WD 80gb SATA may require a jumper setting to stabilize the transmission rate at 150mbs. Did that and after loading the sata drivers I was able to load windows. Only problem is when I turn on the pc the hdd light comes on but doesn't boot. I hit reset and it boots up.
Any suggestions?
Thanks for everyones help...............Ken