Bios not detecting sata hdd

[vr77]

just built a computer and it's not detecting my sata hard drive. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm really frustrated

pc specs

asus a8n sli motherboard
1 gb ram
western digital 120 gb sata hdd
amd athon 64 3500

 

[Tedster]

did you install the drivers?

 

[korrupt]

As Tedster said, when you install Windows it will have an option for you to install 3rd party sata drivers.

Regards,

Korrupt

 

[vr77]

yes, I installed the drivers

 

[Tmagic650]

Set the boot SATA drive to SCSI in the bios...

 

[vr77]

I'm new at this. how do I do that?