I have just built a new PC (my first time) and I am having difficulty with the S-ATA drive. Here is the configuration ...
GigaByte GA-K8NNXP motherboard
Western Digital 120GB S-ATA drive
Maxtor 40GB IDE drive (from old system and contains data files)
512MB Mushkin PC3200 Level One
Power Color Radeon 9600
LiteOn 48X CD Burner
Pioneer 8X DVD Burner
Samsung 191T+ LCD panel
No OS installed just yet.
When I power up the PC and get into BIOS, how do I know that the system sees the S-ATA drive? The Maxtor is listed as Primary Master, LiteOn is the Secondary Master and the Pioneer is listed as the Secondary Slave.
When I try to boot from the floppy I have with the S-ATA drivers on it (and I have set the first boot device to floppy) it does not boot, but the screen shows a Boot from CD message and just hangs as I don't have anything in the CD. I have also tried to boot with a Partition Magic emergency disk I have used for a while, the same thing happens.
Like so many others I am totally confused with the S-ATA problems. I have read so many posts at different sites and read so many reports and white papers on installing a S-ATA drive that I have made things even worse in my head by having so many different opinions offered.
Am I making things worse by asking here? Probably, and I will end up bringing everything in to a PC shop and say ... here ... please help! But of course I am pig headed and don't want to do that.
So I have the S-ATA problem and I have the booting from floppy problem.
Having trusted AnandTech and the recommendations offered here for so long I decided to try and post to see what you can say to help me out.
Many thanks.
GigaByte GA-K8NNXP motherboard
Western Digital 120GB S-ATA drive
Maxtor 40GB IDE drive (from old system and contains data files)
512MB Mushkin PC3200 Level One
Power Color Radeon 9600
LiteOn 48X CD Burner
Pioneer 8X DVD Burner
Samsung 191T+ LCD panel
No OS installed just yet.
When I power up the PC and get into BIOS, how do I know that the system sees the S-ATA drive? The Maxtor is listed as Primary Master, LiteOn is the Secondary Master and the Pioneer is listed as the Secondary Slave.
When I try to boot from the floppy I have with the S-ATA drivers on it (and I have set the first boot device to floppy) it does not boot, but the screen shows a Boot from CD message and just hangs as I don't have anything in the CD. I have also tried to boot with a Partition Magic emergency disk I have used for a while, the same thing happens.
Like so many others I am totally confused with the S-ATA problems. I have read so many posts at different sites and read so many reports and white papers on installing a S-ATA drive that I have made things even worse in my head by having so many different opinions offered.
Am I making things worse by asking here? Probably, and I will end up bringing everything in to a PC shop and say ... here ... please help! But of course I am pig headed and don't want to do that.
So I have the S-ATA problem and I have the booting from floppy problem.
Having trusted AnandTech and the recommendations offered here for so long I decided to try and post to see what you can say to help me out.
Many thanks.