oh computer guys, mine is pissing me off

do "quick format" the other is plain useless

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Originally Posted by GJPinAU

Like the old joke mate.
"Hey dad, YOU bought the volvo"

You bought the PC.

Macs rule!!
(now watch me get flamed)LOL

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You're right, Macs do rule :) Haven't touched a Windows machine in a couple of years now, my PC just sits here next to me collecting dust.

I should sell it one day... but it's a custom built PC, and I doubt I'd get much for it.

****ing ****, bitch still doesn't show up anywhere, giving up for the night only been dicking with it for about 5 hours now

Winfred - hold the drive in your hand with the power and SATA connected - do you feel/hear the drive spool up? I've received DOA drives before.

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Originally Posted by winfred

i am trying to install a new western digital sata 2 250 gig to my onboard sata equipped asus k8vse deluxe mobo and the ****ing drive won't show up, i even unplugged my regular ide drive and booted up from the win2k (my os) disc in a attempt to format the drive (or anything) and it won't see the drive ether, the motherboard seems to see it on boot and will let me view the onboard raid crap and drive id stuff, that's the only place you would even know that another hard drive is attached, it won't show up in the bios ether (i know about the scsi naming thing too, not a option listed) and of coarse the drive utility disc doesn't see anything but my current ide boot drive, why is my **** always retarded?!

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250 gigs? How much p0rn do you need??

The board and windows should see that HD. If the drive shows up in boot but not in bios . . . uh, that sounds whack. I just had one that showed up in bios but not in windows. It's sitting in pile downstairs now.

I would call ASUS if I were you. They are a great company and if you bought the board yourself it probably came with a 3 yr warranty. I've returned a mobo after 2.5 yrs of use for a blown capacitor and didn't have to pay a penny for the repair. I don't know if I can say the same for Western Digital, but they'd be next on my hitlist.

SATA drives generally dont show up in the BIOS, as the raid controller BIOS handles that.

throw your pc out of the window



works for me

it spools and when connected to the raid controler (the first port i plugged into) i can look at the drive and play with raid info if i ctrl-F pre boot which is the only place the drive is visible, but since i switched to the (supposedly) correct port that's gone, from the crap i've read about it's probably going to be a bios/driver problem, common?! problem with this board :( maybe it wants me to buy 3 more drives and build a array, i need that like i need a sore cock :D

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Originally Posted by Jon K

Winfred - hold the drive in your hand with the power and SATA connected - do you feel/hear the drive spool up? I've received DOA drives before.

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well all of it, but seriously try finding a fast drive that's much smaller, you pay about the same thing for one half the size, guess ill stop deleteing the files when i decode/burn a movie

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Originally Posted by azale

250 gigs? How much p0rn do you need??.

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Winfred, FWIW, my mother had GREAT issues with her Promise onboard controller - we bought a PCI card to control the SATA RAID - they are cheap. I know that's not what you want to hear, but we've had a bunch of issues with onboard SATA/RAID controllers in the past.