Hello!
I purchased an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe motherboard recently, preinstalled in a case, along with the CPU and DDR memory. To this, I added the peripherals from my previous system, and a 120GB WD hdd. I had purchased the hdd to replace the old hdd in my previous system, but only got so far as to Ghost the information from the old drive to the new. It was slaved off the original drive, but I never used it.
The problem is, that when I attempted to attach this drive to the new motherboard (switched to master -- no jumper) as a single hard drive, the motherboard sees the drive fine in the BIOS, but that's as far as it gets. I couldn't boot to the drive, and when I attempted to reinstall off a Win XP CD, I get an error "setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer" at the point where you would choose the partition on which to load the OS. I've tried two different hard drives, and 3 different 80pin UDMA cables with no success. I've also connected the 120GB hard drive to another system (same motherboard) that came prebuilt and it sees the hard drive fine.
I've also tried the middle jumper (master in a multi-drive system) with the same result. I've run multiple WD configuration utilities, loaded the Serial controller driver (even though I'm not using the serial ATA controller), and after building and tearing apart the system two times with the same results I'm just about at wits end. Any advice you could give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Dave Quigley
I purchased an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe motherboard recently, preinstalled in a case, along with the CPU and DDR memory. To this, I added the peripherals from my previous system, and a 120GB WD hdd. I had purchased the hdd to replace the old hdd in my previous system, but only got so far as to Ghost the information from the old drive to the new. It was slaved off the original drive, but I never used it.
The problem is, that when I attempted to attach this drive to the new motherboard (switched to master -- no jumper) as a single hard drive, the motherboard sees the drive fine in the BIOS, but that's as far as it gets. I couldn't boot to the drive, and when I attempted to reinstall off a Win XP CD, I get an error "setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer" at the point where you would choose the partition on which to load the OS. I've tried two different hard drives, and 3 different 80pin UDMA cables with no success. I've also connected the 120GB hard drive to another system (same motherboard) that came prebuilt and it sees the hard drive fine.
I've also tried the middle jumper (master in a multi-drive system) with the same result. I've run multiple WD configuration utilities, loaded the Serial controller driver (even though I'm not using the serial ATA controller), and after building and tearing apart the system two times with the same results I'm just about at wits end. Any advice you could give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Dave Quigley
Again, thanks.
