energiesource

So my old computer fried, i bought a new barebones kit and put it all together properly, it was an Asus M2N-MX SE Plus motherboard.
I finally got it to read one IDE drive and had to sadly reformat that but it doesnt read any of my SATA hard drives or secondary IDE drives. the hd's are set to CS, and ive updated the drivers. I've even replaced the motherboard for a new one, so can someone please help?

Vitek

Double check the BIOS settings and verify that your are running latest BIOS version. Also try disconnecting IDE drives and see if it will detect your SATA in BIOS.

energiesource

Well that is one of the problems, when i connected the extra IDE hd's, it wouldnt get past the post screen, it would just freeze, couldnt even go into bios. I'll try it with just the SATA though.

energiesource

So Asus update just quits when i try to update the BIOs, it stops responding. Anyway to get the updates somewhere else?

Quick69GTO

There are two ways to update the BIOS; one is to use the Asus BIOS update utility or you can manually update it. The motherboard manual will show how to do both.
Frankly, I don't think you need to do that.
If CS doesn't work for the IDE drives, set them as Master/Slave. They should work then.
The SATA ports are enabled by default but the nvRAID is not. Try setting it to JBOD or set up whatever RAID configuration you prefer (hard drives only).
It sounds like you've installed Windows already, but if you haven't, connect only the optical drive and the target hard drive. Connect the rest of the drives after Windows is installed.

Good luck!

energiesource

what is JBOD? the bios doesnt give me much options in the raid, sata category. just nvRAID enabled or disabled and thats about it.
i have windows installed already, i had to reformat a hd to do so, i doubt when my mobo went that it blew my hd's as well, pretty unlikely.

Vitek

Are you planning to use RAID or just stand alone HDD's?

BTW, updating BIOS will not hurt anything and it will isolate any potential issues that might be with current version of BIOS that you are running.

Vitek

Here is some information you might want to read on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels

hackapelite

Do you have a 80- or 40- wire IDE cable? You need a 80-wire one to have CS working properly. Have you tried only one IDE drive at a time? Also, is the cable OK? How about the drives?

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