MB doesn't identify my sata

[Detti_da]

Okay, I am German, so my Englisch is bad, but until no one was able to help my.

I got the problem, that my new motherboard isn't able to identify my sata (old board didn't have sata).

I have:
SATA - Western Digital WD800JD-00LSA0 that won't work, but any other harddrive won'T work, too, that is sata

in my pc is already an ide-harddrive, that properly works

mainboard is an "MSI MS-6702-E (v1.0)"

it only has 2 sata-slots, and I can't do anything

the sata works properly and the cable are well, too

the manual tells about options, that I can configure the sata-controller in the "Onboard PCI Controller", but I don't have the options:

http://imgbox.de/users/public/images/i43554z100.jpg

so what I first want to know: does the mainboard have hidden options? how can I activate them?

any other help would be good, too, but I think I have forgotten other details, too.

[Solaris17]

some mother board manuals cover options for several different models based on the same design but some have or dont have certain components.

you could alsways try a bios update and see.

[Detti_da]

Hmm, I see. But Bios-Update isn't something I would do again cause the last one didn't work out.

But, the mainboard should be able to get a sata running, when it has sata-slots? the hdd is as ols as the board, so I don't think there should be a problem or?

[panchoman]

does it detect the hdd in the bios?

[CrackerJack]

If you got the bios set to RAID, then bios want see the HD's. In some motherboard. Just change it to IDE. You should be fine then

[Detti_da]

It doesn't detect the HDD in bios - and i can't configure sata or raid -> there is no option: I can only switch on pata- and sata-controller, then there is nothing more available.

just like in the picture I posted, I don't have any further options. this sata-raid-option I don't have

[panchoman]

is the hdd spinning up when you boot? have you tried connecting the hdd to different ports? have you tried removing the ide hdd and trying only the sata hdd?

[Detti_da]

the hdd is moving, when it's connected, but spinning up I don't thing, when I I understand correctly. At least the hdd works well on other boards

what do you mean with trying to connect to different ports?

I have tried using only the sata, but it didn't work, I also tried other sata, but they didn't work, too

[Solaris17]

try clearing the cmos...and look in your manual to see if their is a jumper thats supposed to be in the on position or something.

[Drauk]

I have an old MB that wouldn't detect my SATA HD, so I wasn't able to install WinXP.
My HD is a seagate, did some searching and found out the I had to have a software on a diskette in the computer before I boot. The software is for the MB to detect the SATA to the HD. When you are booting up from the diskette it would be asking if you need to install some mass ... something. Anyways you probably need that software to boot from, I'm sorry I don't remember the site I got it from, might be from SATA. Right now I'm at work so I can't check the name of the software, I'll check when I get home if you still need it.

Edit: I just release, if the HD is new doesn't he have format it under computer managemant-disk management?

[Detti_da]

@Solaris17

how do I clear the cmos? I hardly know what this is.

There is a jumper, that I need to set, the manufacturer of the hdd writes, that the wd800 doesn't support something, that this board has, so I have tom jumper it, what I have already done - or do you mean something else? Cause the hdd say it doesn't need to be jumpered in the normal way

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@Drauk
Something like that I already tried, but I don't know if it was correct or the correct patch.

I got the drivers on this page, but I don't presisly know, do you know which one should it be?
http://www.msi-technology.de/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=driver&maincat_no=1&prod_no=588

[Solaris17]

pull the beattery out of the mobo for like 30sec than plug it back in and start the computer.

[erocker]

You need to have sata drivers on a floppy. Insert your XP disk and press F8 when it asks. It should then load your sata drivers and you should be good.

[panchoman]

@erocker, his bios doesn't detect it, so i dont think windooze is the problem.

[LuzSYfer]

hi!
since you have an old mainboard, which i think can't handle sataII, have you set any jumper on your harddisk to reduce the speed to sataI? i think my samsung disks have this feature , so may your disk has this too?

in german:
nachdem du ein älteres mainboard hast hast was glaub ich mal noch kein sataII sondern nur sataI unterstützt, schon mal nachgeschaut ob es bei deiner festplatte eine jumper-einstellung gibt das die festplatte auf sata I (oder auch sata150) limitiert? könnte sein dass dien mainboard deswegen probleme mit dem erkennen hat

[Detti_da]

okay, i pulled the battery out and it didn't work

furthermore I downloaded the "VIA VT8237(R) SATA RAID Driver (For floppy driver)"
and installed it when usind xp-setup, but this didn't work, too - BUT the Controller I installed, was a "SataII XP Promise Controller" could it be, that this was the wrong one, because I think this mainboard had sata1

[panchoman]

you might want to put a jumper on your hdd to limit it to sata I operation only.

[Detti_da]

that jumper is alredy set, slot 5-6 as the manual tells

[panchoman]

have you tried other slots?

[spud107]

post the bios if you can, the flash utility can save the bios if needed,
hopefully i can tell if the sata is enabled/disabled,

[Detti_da]

sry, I take so long to reply.

Either way, I have decided that I give up on this, it took me way to much time, to get my both pc running, I don't want to spent more. As it is now, the pc is still good enough.

Thank you all very much for you help :)

[Pinchy]

Dont give up ;).


In your BIOS options there should be something about configuring the drives. Set the option "Configure SATA drives as" and set it to IDE. Also (just a basic thing), have you got the power plugged into the HDD's?

[FreedomEclipse]

im Ihre Herstellung ein komplettes neues schätzend bringen von vista/xp an, da Sie ein neues Motherboard innen haben. nicht kam das Motherboard mit einer Diskette irgendeiner Art?? normalerweise rollen sie eine Diskette mit den Fahrern auf ihr zusammen, also holen Windows Xp/Vista sie ab, wenn Sie sie anbringen. jedoch, wenn es nicht gab, schloß eine Diskette dann Sie viel Notwendigkeit, ein zu verursachen sich mit ein (alle Daten normalerweise haften, die auf dem schlaffen ontop ein USB mem Stock gewesen sein würden, arbeitet, während das meiste Bios von den USB-memmory Stöcken derzeit aufladen kann) die Informationen sind normalerweise nach rechts an der Rückseite des Handbuches im Überfallabschnitt wenn im korrekt. etwas über die Schaffung eines ' raid' Fahrerscheibe. hoffen Sie, dass dieses hilft

[LuzSYfer]

dude - that german is horrible - google translater?? makes no sense at all :roll:

[FreedomEclipse]

well sorry german isnt my first language

[LuzSYfer]

didn't wanna offend you, just saying - please don't use translater tools because they hardly work or give you any output that makes sense

[FreedomEclipse]

yeah well better the OP can read it & not understand 'more' then reading it & not understanding it at all. you never know - maybe to him it might make sense then reading what people are saying in English............after smoking some pot for a few hours...