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System Fails to POST with SATA Drive Connected

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Woz

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I am having problems with my system detailed here

However, I am not convinced yet that my SATA drive problem is part of a motherboard failure or if there is something else going on. I installed a new WD SATA drive last Saturday, system booted fine and drive was recognized and I installed XP. However, as the install process completed and rebooted the system, Windows failed to load and the system reported that it could not find a boot disk. I tried a couple other SATA settings and it still was not recognized. I gave up and connected a new ATA drive instead so I could continue dignosing my other problems.

Later, when I attempted to reattach the SATA drive, the system would lock during POST just after the memory check and before scanning the drives. I actually hear the drive immediately power down when I turn the system on. I suspected it was a drive failure and exchanged it, but the new drive does the same thing. I have tried auto, combined, enhanced and SATA only modes and none of them work if the drive is connected.

I don't have another system to try the drive in to confirm that it is working, but I would doubt that I had two bad drives. What's going on? I started a new thread on this as this is my first SATA drive and they seem to be tricky. I'm not sure if there is some obscure settings I missed or something....
 
At the beginning of the installation, it comes up with 'press F6 if you want to install a SCSI or RAID driver'
Did you press F6 then -

You should press F6 then use the SATA floppy drivers that came with the mobo at that time - and that way the drive should work
 
I can't press F6 during installation if the computer fails to POST with the drive attached.
 
Right at the beginning of the installation, did you press F6?

You said at first it booted fine, but when it restarted, it didn't complete
 
I did not need to load the drivers when I tried to install XP because I am using XP w/SP2 and the drivers are integrated. However, I cannot boot to ANY drive if the SATA drive is connected because the computer halts at POST. It never gets far enough to even recognize any drives.
 
SATA is hot swappable.
Boot into win without the sata connected.
While it is in win, connect up the sata drive and see what happens
 
Originally posted by: montag451
SATA is hot swappable.
Boot into win without the sata connected.
While it is in win, connect up the sata drive and see what happens
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Plugged it in while in XP and I heard it immediately power down. XP doesn't see it.

 
It powered down?
can you check the voltage on the sata line?

look on the mobo BIOS - now, i'm not sure if it is safe to do this or not -
unplug sata drive,
go into bios
connect the drive up.

DONT DO THIS JUST YET - wait for someone else to say if that is safe or not.........



 
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