BIOS doesn't recognize SATA drive? Definitely need help on this one.

[jj1492]

Alright, for what it's worth, I have an Asus K8V Deluxe mobo, Athlon 64 3200 proc, 1 GB (512x2) of Kingston RAM, and a Geforce 3, SCSI controller, and wireless networking card installed in the PCI slots. I have one Seagate 80 GB SATA drive and two Maxtor IDE drives at 27.2 and 80 GB. Well, when I throw in my bootable Windows XP CD to install the sucker, only my IDE drives show up as places available to install. Looking in my BIOS, I cannot select the drive as a boot device. The drive spins up, I can hear it, but it seems the only way I can do anything SATA related is by going through the whole RAID thing which doesn't help my situation. Help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Megatomic]

On my motherboard, I can enable the SATA controller without enabling the SATA RAID boot ROM. Can you do that? Have you tried?

 

[jj1492]

The only option I see in the BIOS is the enable the SATA boot ROM. I see nothing else SATA related.

 

[n7]

Windows doesn't like SATA.
I had the same problem with mine i believe...you select SCSI as the bootable drive, & you need a floppy with the SATA drivers on it...if the drive didn't come with one, you should be able to get them off the mobo's CD. When you go to install Windows, hit F6 to install the drivers.

I may be misunderstanding your question though.
Others can feel free to explain it in more detail if i am wrong.

 

[Megatomic]

Originally posted by: jj1492
The only option I see in the BIOS is the enable the SATA boot ROM. I see nothing else SATA related.

I haven't used your mobo yet so I haven't seen the options but right above that option in my BIOS I have the enable SATA controller(or some such) option. Windows didn't see my SATA drive either until I enabled that.

 

[Viper96720]

Did you F6 and install the sata drivers? Are you using the via controller or the promise controller? Promise one has different driver to use depending if it's raid config or not. The boot menu
should have an option to select the controller your using. Then select it as one of your boot devices.

 

[jj1492]

Well, using F6 and drivers from the mobo CD, I got XP's setup to recognize it. Right now it's formatting the drive and then will install XP onto it. From there, I just need to figure out exactly how to select it as a boot device. I'll be back shortly.

 

[Viper96720]

Boot part should be easy just poke aroind in the boot settings section of the bios.

 

[Algere]

SATA Boot Rom allows drives connected to [VIA]SATA 1 and/or 2 to be bootable.