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I unplug the 40g drive and went into the raid bios but it did not see the 74 WD Raptor at all the only thing I could do is hit exit and leave, that's it. Why?
 
Can you hear the drive's motor spinning up at startup? And it's on the SATA1 or SATA2 plugs? The board also has the Promise SATA controller with plugs marked PRI_SATA and SEC_SATA if I remember correctly, and those would only show up if you had the Promise controller enabled in the BIOS. So double-check on which controller she's plugged into.
 
It has power but I don't real hear it, the cpu fan it loader. Also I have the pins on set 5 and 6 on the hd.
 
Hmm, try enabling the Promise SATA controller in the BIOS, set it to IDE mode, plug the SATA drive into the PRI_SATA plug and see if the Promise controller can detect it. It'll have its own detection screen and should list that it found your 740GD. You can even run the Promise IDE Makedisk (there's two flavors of Makedisk for the Promise, one for the RAID mode and the other for the "normal" mode) and see if Windows Setup will pick it up and try to install on it.
 
Which type of power cable are you giving the drive? Try the old-fashioned 4-pin one if you're using the new-fangled SATA flat one, since that drive can take either type. Don't use them both at once, of course. Maybe try a different SATA data cable too.
 
I'll have to check about the pins at Western Digital's site since I don't know what the different pin settings are for on a SATA drive. Gimme a couple minutes to find that info.
 
From what Western Digital says here, it looks like you should put the jumper cap on pins 1 & 2 or leave it off of the pins completely.
 
Let me know what happens 🙂 Three more posts and you won't be a Junior Member anymore, either 😀
 
All I keep get is reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key.
 
When I have Xp pro running in set up mode it ask for softare in order to see the Raptor, so were do I find this software. I bought the HD OEM style
 
The oftware is the driver on the CD that came with the motherboard. You need to get the drivers on a floppy. Once XP sees them, it should load them and install okay from then on.
 
Originally posted by: Evil1
I had the 378ata drive on the floppy and it still didnt work. Also use the 378raid that didn't work too.
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Originally posted by: mechBgon
Originally posted by: Evil1
Will have everything up and running, but now I get a reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key.

Also I have a 74g WD raptor for my main drive that the bios does not see but it see the 40g WD that I have and the DVD-ROM. In addition I don't have a Floppy do I need one? Thanks
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You're making headway 🙂 I think you're going to need to scrounge a floppy drive for setup purposes. I'd use the VIA SATA controller, which is the SATA1 and SATA2 jacks on this model. There are three Makedisk.exe files on your board's CD-ROM, one of which is intended for the VIA SATA controller (you can tell because this Makedisk.exe is in a folder that has VIA in its name). Run that particular Makedisk.exe to make the necessary driver diskette for the VIA SATA controller.

In the motherboard's BIOS, you will want to enable SATA BOOT ROM item shown on page 4-23 of the manual, which I think is a couple layers into the BIOS menus under Advanced > Southbridge Configuration > Onchip Devices Configuration (roll with the punches, it's in there somewhere). You may also need to go into Boot and rummage through the menus to get it to understand that you want the Raptor to be the boot drive, particularly if you also have an IDE drive in the system too.

Hope that helps you through the rest of it. Make sure you don't let it connect to the Internet without a firewall and/or current antivirus protection or you might end up doing this stuff again real soon 😉 More on that here.
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reread the part about making the floppy for the drivers..then when you have the floppy made up and in A drive ..boot from XP CD ..you'll come to a screen asks for other party drivers(F6 prompt)..it should upon tapping F6 look for and install the SATA drivers..gl 🙂
 
Thanks for all the help put this just isn't working. When I hit f6 it just keep on install it. Then I get to the point were it ask for PLEASE INSERT THE DISK LABELED MANUFACTER SUPPLIED HARDWARE SUPPORT DISK INTO DRIVE A . So I throw the disk into A with the driver/promise.378raid/Makedisk.exe
After that I the same PLEASE INSERT THE DISK LABELED MANUFACTER SUPPLIED HARDWARE SUPPORT DISK INTO DRIVE A PLEASE INSERT THE DISK LABELED MANUFACTER SUPPLIED HARDWARE SUPPORT DISK INTO DRIVE A PLEASE INSERT THE DISK LABELED MANUFACTER SUPPLIED HARDWARE SUPPORT DISK INTO DRIVE A, over and over agian. WTF
 
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