Hard Drive Help Request

Ok so I am building this computer, an AMD system with an ASUS Deluxe mobo, the exact model escapes me A8somethin or other. I am having a problem loading windows. The BIOS detects the hard drive (A western digi 120gig special edition) but when I boot from the Winxp cd it says no hard drive found. I know its hooked up right, IDE cable is right and jumpers and power. Is there something I am missing, Ive never encountered this problem before. HELP Please

It may be necessary to install drivers.. This is espcially true if you have a RAID / SCSI controller. When you first boot from the CD, you will be given the option to install third party RAID / SCSI controller drivers. It will say, "Press F6 to... blah blah"

Your board probably came with a floppy disk for your disk controller, which you will need to install these drivers.

See here -
http://www.legge40.freeserve.co.uk/HDDProblems.htm#xpraid
for an article on installing RAID drivers.

Are you sure that you're using the 80-conductor IDE cables that have to be used with ATA 66/100/133 drives. If you are using the ATA33 40-conductor cables perhaps that could be the cause.

Anyway always double check component seatings, motherboard settings, and that there are no bent pins on the processor, HDD, and FDD.

Eric,
http://www.legge40.freeserve.co.uk/BuyerBeware.htm