Tech Support Forum - View Single Post - [SOLVED] Urgent help needed to convert SATA II

vee7979 · 12-10-2007, 01:16 PM

hello ppl,

i hope someone can really give me some stress relief. i recently bought a 160GB SATA II drive to install in my K8T Neo VIA K8T800 chipset based MSI mainboard , AMD 64 bit 3000+ Athlon processor.... the mainboard carries a VT8237 chipset and it seems as if it can only support SATA I drives. the problem is whenever i boot from the cd rom to install windows, it recognises the drive in the bios and also when the pc starts. when windows load the basic drivers in the memory and is about to start copying files to the hard drive.... it says that windows did not find any disks attached and to check the power cable etc and to install any manuyfacturer software. i believe the prob is that the m/board cant support SATA II... the SATA II drive doesnt have any jumpers to set. is there any software i can download or something that i can do instead of having to purchase a new HD?? PLEASE HELP ...

Desperately need some assistance....

12-10-2007, 01:16 PM	#1 (permalink)
vee7979 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 11 OS: XP SP2	[SOLVED] Urgent help needed to convert SATA II hello ppl, i hope someone can really give me some stress relief. i recently bought a 160GB SATA II drive to install in my K8T Neo VIA K8T800 chipset based MSI mainboard , AMD 64 bit 3000+ Athlon processor.... the mainboard carries a VT8237 chipset and it seems as if it can only support SATA I drives. the problem is whenever i boot from the cd rom to install windows, it recognises the drive in the bios and also when the pc starts. when windows load the basic drivers in the memory and is about to start copying files to the hard drive.... it says that windows did not find any disks attached and to check the power cable etc and to install any manuyfacturer software. i believe the prob is that the m/board cant support SATA II... the SATA II drive doesnt have any jumpers to set. is there any software i can download or something that i can do instead of having to purchase a new HD?? PLEASE HELP ... Desperately need some assistance....