GA-K8NNXP 754 MOBO SATA XP installation

[psychnurse]

Gidday from New Zealand.

Ok here goes,
GA-K8NNXP 754 MOBO
2 times 80g seagate SATA
512 times 2 Geil ddr400 ultra
amd64 3200

Windows xp does not detect the sata drives. I copied the SATA drivers from the gigabyte driver cd to a floppy. Pressed F6 when it asks for 3rd part scsi drivers and stll it says no hard drive detected.

I think I may have my bios settings a bit mixed up. Oh and I can see the 2 sata drives when the pc boots. I also have the lastest bios from gigabyte version F12.
So if anybody else out there is running the same mobo with sata could you please post your bios settings.

Cheers all.
Malcolm (psychnurse)

 

[orion7144]

Are you trying to set them up in a RAID array?

 

[GfW]

Hey Malcolm ... I have a post a few days ago with exactly the same type of problem. Same mobo, same BIOS ... but I can't even see the SATA when the PC boots. When I try to load Windows I also go through the F6 to load drivers and then after loading more Windows stuff I am told there is no hard drive to install to.

Here is the thread I have started ...
[L=http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?atid=32&threadid=1319071&enterthread=y[/L]]

I have a couple of things left to try before I bring the PC into a PC shop and let them have a go at it.

Good luck

 

[psychnurse]

Attrion7144
I have tried with raid array and without but to no avail. I mean this is one mean bitch of a mobo to set up.

 

[psychnurse]

Fred, im having probs connecting to your thread. Can you try posting again.

 

[psychnurse]

Just a thought, have you updated your bios to version F12. I see that is the version that detects SATA.
Maybe we can work through this together and share info.

 

[GfW]

Malcolm ... here is the link again

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=32&threadid=1319071&enterthread=y

The title of the thread is New PC and S-ATA Drive ... BIOS Doesn't See It. As of right now, it is on page 5 of this forum.

I have managed to solve my problem and am kind of upset with myself and Western Digital. The instructions that come with the Western Digital drive say not to touch the jumpers as they are set with a factory default that will be good for most, if not all, users. So being the trusting sort I didn't even look at the jumpers.

After 3 days of trying to get this to work I pulled the drive out and the jumper was supposed to cover pins 1 & 2, disabling the hard drive power management, Well, the factory covered pins 3 & 4 and that enabled the power management system that put the drive into standby mode at boot. No wonder I couldn't see it. I have successfully installed Windows and now am having issues with the monitor drivers ... but that won't be too hard to correct.

I have mountains of posts and FAQs I have collected trying to solve my perceived problem ... I'll sift through it all and see if I can spot anything that may help.

Good luck.

 

[psychnurse]

cheers, well if i can see see my drives in the bios then the jumpers wont be the issue. I know its a pure windows/ sata issue.
Could you post your bios settings like:
gigaraid enabled/disabled
boot up order
any other things that come to mind.
Cheers
malcolm

 

[GfW]

Malcolm ... check your private messages ... I PM'd them to you.