oh computer guys, mine is pissing me off

[winfred]

meat cheese and taters with the occaisional green thing

it's probably your diet

[Alpinewhite]

ill check it out when i get home tonight, i am sure it's a solvable problem as others have gotten them to work, like i said why is my **** always retarded

Any luck after changing the BIOS settings?
Arun

[winfred]

nope dicked with it several hours last night and the drive is still invisable, still researching

Any luck after changing the BIOS settings?
Arun

[azale]

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?!

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.

[winfred]

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

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

[BillionPa]

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

[BigTed00]

throw your pc out of the window



works for me

[Jon K]

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.

[nhoj007]

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?!

You must install either the VIA or Promise RAID controller depending on which SATA controller on the MB you used. 1 & 2 use VIA, 3&4 use the Promise Raid controller. If you use the Promise control you must then setup an array of Raid 0+1 striped (even if using only one drive).
Once you do that and are in Windows go to the Disk Manager and enable the drive.

[winfred]

woohoo it's up and running, nothing last night seemed to get any good reaction so tonight i switched the drive back to the primary port from one tweeked a few things, reinstalled a driver again and be damned if the bastard didn't show up, and the WD disc utility cloned my ide drive to the new hotness and here we are, thank god i can get my ****ing desk back

thanks to all that helped