Motherboard not detecting Sata drive

Shane

Shane

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Hello people!

Okay im trying to add a 500Gb Sata2 hard drive for storage to my HTPC.

problem is...when i install the drive,ithe system wont boot....just sits there at the black screen that shows the system specs.

This is the motherboard

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&docname=c00063254&printable=yes

It has two Sata ports (1 black) and (1 white) not sure why the done them a diffrent colour but i tried them both with still the same result.

Its a ex Hp system btw :D

Specs

AMD Sempron 2800+ 2Ghz
Asus A7V8X-LA
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 256mb
Seagate Barracuda 120Gb IDE
DVD Drive (IDE)

any help appreciated
 
Old Socket A board, go into the bios and make sure the SATA ports are set to enable. Most older boards by default had them set to disable.
 
kimsland said:
You may need to update your Bios on that Rack Server
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Rackmount server? Its not a Rackmount server...its a standard system.
That bios you poinetd me too would not work...however i am thinking now it may be a BIOS issue,i realy didnt want to mess around with the bios on this thing.
because on alot of older systems...a bad bios update can brick the motherboard.

StrangleHold said:
Old Socket A board, go into the bios and make sure the SATA ports are set to enable. Most older boards by default had them set to disable.
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Yup i already done that before i posted...no such options,the Hp bios is very basic.

davestack said:
This is really hard but try to check the bios first.
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:rolleyes:
 
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Nevakonaza said:
Rackmount server? Its not a Rackmount server...its a standard system.
That bios you poinetd me too would not work...however i am thinking now it may be a BIOS issue,i realy didnt want to mess around with the bios on this thing.
because on alot of older systems...a bad bios update can brick the motherboard.
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Here you can go to THIS THREAD (of mine) and confirm that the Bios (under Driver) is for your system

HP are pretty good and not "bricking" the motherboard
But no manufacture will take resposnsibility for an incorrect Bios update
 
Another thought. A lot of older chipsets didnt do to well with SATA 3.0 drives even though the drives their self were backwad compatible. Most drives have a jumper on the back to force SATA 1.5 speed.
 
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