SATA haarddrive deduction problem

[harie2006]

hi to all.i bought a new assembled pc
mercury ,otherboard P4VM800M7 ,intel p4 2.8
the motherboard has two SATA connectors and two IDE .
i connected a 80GB SEAgate HD to one of the SATA port(SATA1).
this is the only hd i have and nothing installed on it.
BIOS is dedcting my SATA hard disk.
do i have make any chages in the bios settings?
i tried making some changes in the features page but all in vain.

when tried to boot using XP it said there is no harddisk detected.

 

[iss]

You have to load the SATA drivers during boot up whern yo see the prompt "press F6 to load third party drivers." if you dont have a floppy with the drivers supplied then look on the motherboard disk there should be a program there for making the sata drivers floppy disk on it. or you can download them from the mobo makers site.