Need help hooking up ata133 with Asus P4PE motherboards

[KuLL]

I currently have a ASUS p4pe gbl motherboard and I have one maxtor 80G 7200rpm 8mb hard drive and I want to hook up as ATA133 speed.. is there a way or is that for raid only?? thanks~

 

[microAmp]

As long as the the HDD, IDE cable, and motherboard support it, it's done in Windows.

You'll have to go into Device Manager, and depending on the OS, it'll be on the HDD or the IDE controller.

 

[KuLL]

yah but I hook it up on the primary ide that's only 100 ata only the primary_raid1 has 133 ata so I need to hook it up on that.. but I can't boot windows with it... do I need to have 2 hard drives? and hae raid inorder to use ATA133 Speed?? I tried connecting to the Primary_raid1 with single harddrive but I don't know how to set up array? so I use auto.. and it just won't boot to windows.. it says it has errors do I need to reinstall windows?

 

[KuLL]

bump bump~

 

[olds]

Can you set the boot IDE channel in the BIOS? I know you could on my Gigabyte GA7DXR. I put my hdd on IDE 3 and set it to boot off of IDE 3.

 

[corkyg]

That should be all automatic. Keep in mind that all of the ATA crap above 33 is burst only - has very little impact on sustained data transfer rate.

 

[boomerang]

I've got the same board. I know what you're talking about. I've messed around with this for a considerable amount of time and you cannot hook up a single drive to that connector. It must be used in conjunction with a drive on one of the SATA connectors, and then only in RAID.

I was very dissapointed to find this out. Paid big bucks for this board. My own fault because I didn't research it thoroughly enough.

If I'm wrong, I would love to be corrected. I tried every combination of BIOS settings and could not get this to work.

 

[KuLL]

oldsmoboat : yes I tried it.. and set everything right... but still no go...

corky-g: yes 100 and 133 not much differences but since I got a ATA133 HDD and this motherboard why not hook it up(if I can) and use it?

boomerang: yeah u'r right.. u have the same board as me... and I just want to confrim this.. yes I think it's for raid only too.. and not one single hdd... and don't be dissapointed man.... it's still an awsome board!
oh by the way.... did u tried it with one single hdd on the primary_raid1 and bios setting right and using the maxtor blast to reformat the hdd and then install windows?? I havn't tried it yet.... did u tried it?? and also set array to auto..... can u confirm this for me?

thanks everyone can confirm this with me...

 

[boomerang]

Well, I tried every configuration there is. If you hook a drive up to the ATA/133 connector, you must enable the Onboard SATA/IDE RAID Controller in the BIOS. Now, when you boot, you see the RAID BIOS and your only option is to create an array, which of course you can't do, because you have only one drive. I know, because I tried.

I'm using Seagate drives, so Maxblast does not apply. It would have no bearing on this situation anyway. I'm running XP Pro and partitioned and formatted right off the XP CD.

 

[KuLL]

lol alrite then I guess there seems no way to hook up on ATA133 except raid then..
thanks~

 

[olds]

I just went throught the same thing last night on a Soyo Dragon that I put in my machine. I could see the hdd (IDE 3) listed as the machine was posting but it wasn't there when I tried to install XP to it. It turns out that I had to put the Highpoint drivers on a floppy then install them from there. I was assuming that XP would have gereric drivers to load after hitting F6 when first starting to install XP. I also had to enable RAID in the BIOS and list SCSI as the first boot device.
I realize that you have a different mobo but there may be a simular procedure.

 

[KuLL]

I can find the hdd.. and boot from it too.. just that when u installing windows... there is an error poped out..

 

[olds]

I see. What I was saying is that maybe there is a procedure to set in order for you to be able to boot off of IDE 3. I could boot off of IDE 3 until I set the first boot device as SCSI and enabled RAID. Something I normally wouldn't have done unless I was using SCSI or RAID. Also, check out this forum.