Problems with A7N8X-E Deluxe and Sata

[HighterDK]

I'm having problems with my Seagate Sata150 80gb and an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe mobo. For some reason the bios doesn't recognize the Sata drive (it doesn't show up on the screen where you can see the primary and secondary IDE devices). But if I don't enter the bios and let the boot process continue I get a message asking me to configure my Sata Raid (I only have one Sata Drive). How can I make the bios recognize the drive and remove this annoying message?

 

[JBT]

First you need to put SCSI in the boot menu before and take out any IDE drives also disable "boot from other devices. SCSI= SATA in the BIOS. The message asking to configure the SATA RAID is actually just the SATA BIOS and will always show up for a few seconds once you have it working correctly.

 

[HighterDK]

But what if I need to boot from cd?

 

[DarkAmeba]

You can always change bios settings if you need to boot from CD. You already have windows installed right? If you don't you have a different problem.

 

[JBT]

I meant IDE HDD's not just plain IDE drives sorry. you can have floppy's and CD-Rom' in the boot string too just no IDE hard drives. I have it set up this way even with out a IDE HDD in my boot sting if I have
"boot from other devices" enabled it will skip my SATA drive if that HDD has windows/linux installed on it. Kind of weird but IDE HDD's have a heavy priority compared to SATA's.

 

[suicidjky]

I have a similiar problem right now, and have not been able to work it out. I have a 74 gig raptor, I have a boot disk with the sata drivers waiting. But whenever I have the sata drive plugged in my computer will not boot from cd-rom, or even boot into windows. It doesn't mater whether i have scsi selected in boot devices, or even my ide drives unplugged. Anyone have any idea what is going on?