SATA HDD Disk Boot Failure

[Zeddicus]

I am currently building an entry level server. I'm using an Abit IS7-M Motherboard and a Seagate Barracuda 80GB SATA 150 hard drive.
Model number ST380013AS and Windows 2003 Server Small Business Edition.

I have the Server OS installed and everything works fine on the system with one exception.

When I do a cold boot, the motherboard will not detect the hard drive and gives a boot disk failure error. After letting the system warm up for a few minutes, I reset the system and the hard drive is detected and boots up fine from there.

This is like clockwork everytime.

This is my first system build using SATA, so I'm not sure if there is a setting that im missing, or if maybe this is a normal thing for SATA, though i doubt it.

Any ideas? I havent tried a bios upgrade, though i probably will shortly.

 

[beatle]

It never hurts to upgrade the bios. SATA doesn 't have a "delay" like ide does, I don't think. I suspect the cable may be faulty. Double and triple check your connections, and/or change the port the drive plugs into. I recently built a system using a known good ide cable (reused from old system). When I powered the system on, everything was fine, but if I hit reset, it refused to detect my cdrom sometimes. After replacing the cable, all was fine.

 

[Zeddicus]

Looks like the bios upgrade did the trick. So far so good anyway.