Chaintech Vnf3-250 sata drive not reconized.

[wseyller]

I just got a chaintech VNF3-250. I installed one 80gb sata drive. When installing windows I installed the correct drivers that tech support told me to use. But it doesn't see any mass storage devices. I can hear the harddrive working and change the cables and tried a different port. Any suggestions. How do you tell if the system actually detects the sata drive. I also have an Asus K8V deluxe and I only see detected IDE drives displayed. I have a feeling my sata drive isn't detected by the bios.

 

[wseyller]

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[wseyller]

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[sonoma1993]

i have the same mobo vnf3-250. the vnf3-250 comes with natural support for sata drives. When you install windows xp from the cd-rom, you dont need the drivers for it. Just contiune to were it asked you to pick a drive to install windows on and stuff and it should show up there.

 

[wseyller]

No it don't detect it. I've read thread that many others with this mobo needed drivers for one sata drive.

 

[Agamar]

Do you have RAID turned on? That would be the only reason for the drive not to be detected. Both of my Raptor 36G drives worked fine.

 

[wseyller]

Originally posted by: Agamar
Do you have RAID turned on? That would be the only reason for the drive not to be detected. Both of my Raptor 36G drives worked fine.

I tried it both ways. Tech support said to not have it on. I've read where some people said to have it on. I've tried every thing in this thread below that I found. After trying to install drivers with the floppy it later says that it cannot detect mass storage device.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=1304580

 

[turban]

Are you saying that if you boot off the xp disk, the process stops and an error message appears saying that it has nothing to intall on to?

I just installed my vnf3-250 with a hitachi 80 gb sata hard drive. the first time i went into the bios, i searched far and wide and could not find the hard drive.
I just booted through the xp disk and when it got to the partion process, it told me that it had a 82 gb drive that i could leave as one partition or divide further.

See if you can go that far. If you can, you are golden...

 

[BW86]

my vnf3 picked up my sata drive right away.

 

[Bisonman80]

i had a similar problem ,i tried using a different xp cd, (was using sp1 then i used before sp1) and i got it to work... im not very good at this stuff but i hope that helps

 

[erikistired]

hey you guys using the vnf3-250 and sata drives, are your drives showing up as a removable device? mine is for some reason, just odd to see. guess it's not a problem either way.