Maxtor 160 Gb Sata Hard Drive On An Asus K8v Se Deluxe M.b.

[thossoma]

I am trying to get windows xp installed on my new system but it keeps telling me that it can't find a hard drive on my system. I have used the motherboard cd to make a sata driver disk and I have pressed F6 at the beginning of the XP cd loading. I have chosen the WINXP Promise driver, it loads it I press enter then I press enter again to install windows and it says that there is NO HARD DRIVE. WHAT THE CRAP! Can someone give me some help. I have 4 serial ata ports on the motherboard. 2 of which have "pri sata" & "sec sata" written. The other 2 have "sata1" & "sata2" written. Is there a certain one that I should plug into? HELP! Should I use the power adapter for the SATA DRIVE or just the regular power cable? ANY help would be great thanks!

 

[fishhookz]

With SATA, there are 2 POST's. First is BIOS. 2nd is SATA. Enter the 2nd by pressing a key. Refer to manual. Add the new drive there. Save and reboot.

 

[Wuzix]

Try these instead (worked for me)

D:\Drivers\VIARAID\6420RAID\DriverDisk there should be a make disk option here, i used this and it seems fine, hope this helps XD

 

[thossoma]

I think I went to raid and then Promise. So you are telling me to use the via driver instead?

 

[Didou]

There are 4 SATA ports on the motherboard. Two powered by the VIA southbridge, the two others by the Promise controller. Find out on which you've plugged your HDD & use the proper drivers accordingly.

 

[Wuzix]

Yes

If you follow the directory i posted it should take you to the folder you need (asuming we have the same cd)

 

[thossoma]

I looked on the cd and I see what you were talking about. I will try those drivers.



As far as which ports I have the HD attached to....I tried both the sata1 and the pri sata. So I think when I used the promise drivers for both ports one should have worked. But I will go home and try these new drivers. Thanks for the help.


If anyone knows which ports are promise and which are via. Please let me know. Thanks!!

 

[Wuzix]

Motherboard manunal

Your motherboard manual should have a few clear diagrams showing what is what. Wouldnt be able to tell you myself :/ sorry