Bios settings for SATA

[ozonecomputer]

Ok, my friend just got himself a nice new system (Athlon 64) from parts that we built together. Everything works great but the bios is not seeing the SATA hard drive. As it starts to boot, a second part sees it, but as a main drive it isn't showing up at all. I changed every setting that I could think of that would make it work, saying to disable the onboard IDE, use the SATA and not Raid, disable the ATA Raid etc., but it still won't recognize it, even if I try to auto detect the drive. Hope this is making sense.

 

[SemperFi]

You may want to tell what motherboard you have.

I forget where the setting is but I think is like first boot device. You should have an option for scsi. select that. If that doesn't work post some details about your board. The bios looks at the sata as a scsi device. So if that isn't the right place look around for something else that gives you a scsi option.

 

[eklass]

make sure you the sata controller is included in the boot devices, namely towards the top if it's your boot drive. windows will *probably* need the drivers to see the drive on installation

 

[ozonecomputer]

Yeah we've tried the SCSI bit I'm pretty sure, no luck with that... I know it's a Gigabyte motherboard, I think a GA-K8N, but not entirely sure.

 

[EeyoreX]

I don't know how it is on the A64 boards, but I do know with boards with the nForce2 chipset, SATA is not a part of the BIOS, but a seperate BIOS (as it is a seperate controller).

As it starts to boot, a second part sees it

Sounds like this is what is happening. Do you have software running? Is Windows installed? If so then everything is obviously fine. If not, read the manual to find out how to access the seperate SATA BIOS and set up the SATA drive (for example, on my nForce2 board, it's CTRL-F).

\Dan