Vanilla P5B Bios help needed - SATA drives not recognized

[gdtymze]

I have the following

P5B (vanilla) mobo
2 gigs of GEIL PC 4200 dual channel RAM
ATI Radeon X1600
2 SEAGATE HDD (320 gigs each)
2 LG DVD ROMs
NO FLOPPY DRIVE
450 W power supply

Problem: Everything was working fine. I tried to add 2 gigs of OCZ RAM. When I installed the ram the monitor would not post (would not power up - no signal). So I did some research and read that if you remove the battery for the bios and reset the bios then install the RAM things should be recognized and work fine. WRONG. I tried that and the monitor still would not post. To make matters worse my MOBO is not recognizing the SATA drives (the worked fine before but not now). The bios is now the 0806 bios and as I said the bios is not recognizing the SATA drives. Any input on how to get the drives recognized would be appreciated. One thing to note is that all other things are working and ID'ed in the bios and when I boot ubuntu from the DVD rom graphics and sound all work. Still the SATA drives are not working. Any and I mean ANY input would be appreciated.

Michael

 

[Rebel44]

Can youenter BIOS? Do you have floppy drive? If so than I reccomend you to update to BIOS 1202 - I have this bios and it recognizes my drive and burner SATA without problems.

 

[gdtymze]

Thanks!

I got it working. It was a bone head mistake. I knocked the SATA cable loose when I removed the new RAM strips. I also just upgraded the bios.