NEED IMMEDIATE HELP WITH Aopen AK86-L (KT800)...won't detect SATA drive. No setting in BIOS for SATA IDE/RAID

[NFS4]

NEED IMMEDIATE HELP!!! I have my shuttle board rigged up on top of my system so that I can test this!!

The board WON'T detect my SATA Raptor drive and it DOESN'T have setting in the BIOS to set the SATA mode to IDE or RAID. WTF is up with that?

It won't detect the SATA at all!!! I even downloaded the 1.04 BIOS from Aopen's website.

PICS:

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~bahill2/aopen-1.jpg
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~bahill2/aopen-2.jpg
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~bahill2/aopen-3.jpg

 

[nitromullet]

1) I don't have the same type of board as you, but my SATA drives also don't show up in the BIOS (they are not part of the primary or secondary IDE channels), but there is a seperate boot screen for them that shows they are connected. Maybe your drive is getting detected...

2) The Raptors have a SATA power conenctor and an old school molex connector, but you should only use one or the other. You aren't using both are you?

Just a few things to consider.

 

[Viper96720]

Press Tab to go into the via sata raid bios. Maybe something there might work

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: nitromullet
1) I don't have the same type of board as you, but my SATA drives also don't show up in the BIOS (they are not part of the primary or secondary IDE channels), but there is a seperate boot screen for them that shows they are connected. Maybe your drive is getting detected...

2) The Raptors have a SATA power conenctor and an old school molex connector, but you should only use one or the other. You aren't using both are you?

Just a few things to consider.

It isn't getting detected at the VIA RAID BIOS screen either. I only have the 4-pin HD connector connected now...I'll try the SATA power adapter when I finish eating.

 

[Viper96720]

Tried playing around with boot devices? I got the ASUS one and there's no ide or raid sata mode for the via controller. Just for the promise one which the aopen doesn't have.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: Viper96720
Tried playing around with boot devices? I got the ASUS one and there's no ide or raid sata mode for the via controller. Just for the promise one which the aopen doesn't have.

I've tried everything. I'll give it another go in about 30 mins

 

[Viper96720]

If you go to the anandtech review has a link to beta bios 1.06