SATA drive problems

[ascarytiger]

I just put together a new computer last night and I'm having some trouble. Heres what I'm running:

AMD Athlong 64 3200+ Venice
Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 (is this board any good?)
ATI x800XL 256MB
Seagate 160GB SATA
WD 200GB IDE

When I installed Windows, it wouldn't recognize my SATA drive. I finally got Windows up and running installed on my IDE drive which I really didn't wanna do. Is there a way I can get my SATA drive up just for extra storage? It's plugged in and the hardware is installed right, I've checked many times. It would really be nice if it worked.

In the nvraid utility thing it shows the hard drive listed healthy, but thats the only place it shows up. Also, in device manager there is no SATA anything at all.

one more thing I noticed...am I supposed to have a secondary display thing. In the display properties/settings, theres listed:

1. Plug and play monitor on Radeon x800 series
2. (defaukt monitor) on x800 series - Secondary

I have the 1st on highlighted.

 

[stevty2889]

Well you have to install the drivers for the SATA conroller in order for it to be reconginzed. If you want to install windows on the SATA drive, you need to make sure the IDE drive is disconnected, and have the drivers ready on a floppy disk. Then during windows installation press F6 when prompeted to install 3rd party drivers.

By the way, this is NOT highly technical, so you your thread will likely get locked. Please post in the correct forum, in your case general hardware or technical support..

 

[OCedHrt]

The nForce4 does not require SATA drivers to be installed to use the SATA devices. If you don't have them installed they'll be recognized as single IDE drives (not sure if nVidia IDE drivers are required, but don't think so).