Installing single SATA hard drive help with Asus K8V-Deluxe

[ocamateur]

Anybody here could pls upload the driver for the Promise controller for use with one single SATA, since mine mobo is a OEM, i don't have the CD

 

[xeroid]

I have been reading and it seems like this board DOES have a problem trying to set up some types of hard drives.

What I have for a hard drive is a Enhanced IDE Wsetern Digital Caviar SE 120 GB Model # is WD1200JB.
http://www.westerndigital.com/...DriveID=27&Lang=1

What I am confused about is what type of drive is this I am trying to install ... is it an ATA? SATA?

Then I am also confused where on the mother board the ribbon cable should go for this hard drive. Right beside the CD Rom cable ... Blue one ... or that other Red socket on the mother board? Is the Blue one the raid controller and the Red one SATA controller? ... I'm lost.

What a pain this is .... I'm at it now for about 12 hours !!!

This is what I get so far ... during boot up ... does not detect any drives .... but for some reason eventually boots. I managed to get window's XP pro installed and it runs ... so it does find the drive. Just doesn't boot properly .... what can I do to get this working properly. Don't tell me I have to start all over again ! YIKE

Lynne
xeroid@kos.net

 

[xeroid]

OK .. I have another problem ... trying to install a Sapphire 9600xt 256 mb .... but I only get a distorted screen!

What to do about this problem now?

YIKE