Dell 200 gig not supported by motherboard

[smf96822]

ECS K75SA pro sometimes sees 200 gigs , sometimes doesn't.

Tried an Iwill sideraid pci ide card but doesnt see drive

Promise 66 ata controller cant see drive either

any ideas???

 

[WW]

do you have one drive set as master and one as slave? (if two on the same cable)...cable select is iffy sometimes.

did you try a new (different) ide cable?

 

[AnyMal]

Please calrify, is your drive not detected at all, or is it not detected at full 200gb capacity? If latter, you have couple of options. First off, ata 66 controller will not recognize drives capacity past 137gb which is a known issue. You can either try and upgrade your mobo BIOS, or partition your drive to say 2x100gb.

If your drive is not recognized at all, check the BIOS to see if it's been detected. Check your jumper settings, if it suppose to be your bootable drive make sure that it's on your primary IDE channel and set as a master.