I just built a computer for a friend of mine with the following stats
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 939
AV8 Abit Motherboard
2x 256MB Corsair XMS DDR400
ATI Radeon 9000 Pro
Western Digitial Caviar 160GB SATA
Toshiba Combo Drive (CD-R/DVDROM)
NEC Floppy Drive
I got everything turned on, I make the BIOS come up, and its not reading the SATA Hard drive. I tried using another cable, failed. I used another SATA port, failed. I can't get it to read this dang thing. I'm starting to think that the board doesn't support SATA, yet it comes with a floppy Disk that is clearly marked SATA DRIVERS. I can't boot from that disk, I've tried. IT has Windows XP/2003 marked on it. So basically I need a hard drive with Windows to install drivers onto a HD that isn't being read. Doesn't work that way.... I dunno why they put SATA drivers on a disk, my motherboard read my SATA drive right away...I've also tried using the CD ROM, no avail.
I've searched out for a BIOS update, but it doesn't include a fix for the SATA.
What do I do?
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 939
AV8 Abit Motherboard
2x 256MB Corsair XMS DDR400
ATI Radeon 9000 Pro
Western Digitial Caviar 160GB SATA
Toshiba Combo Drive (CD-R/DVDROM)
NEC Floppy Drive
I got everything turned on, I make the BIOS come up, and its not reading the SATA Hard drive. I tried using another cable, failed. I used another SATA port, failed. I can't get it to read this dang thing. I'm starting to think that the board doesn't support SATA, yet it comes with a floppy Disk that is clearly marked SATA DRIVERS. I can't boot from that disk, I've tried. IT has Windows XP/2003 marked on it. So basically I need a hard drive with Windows to install drivers onto a HD that isn't being read. Doesn't work that way.... I dunno why they put SATA drivers on a disk, my motherboard read my SATA drive right away...I've also tried using the CD ROM, no avail.
I've searched out for a BIOS update, but it doesn't include a fix for the SATA.
What do I do?