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notchristopher · 03-19-2008, 10:41 AM

I am building a new PC and have got it up and running with an IDE harddrive. I'm trying to add a SATA drive.

I have hooked it up right and it does spin when I power up the PC. I set up the BIOS (to my knowledge) correctly. When the PC starts up it shows the IDE drive as the Channel 0 master (I have loaded windows on it and it works fine). But when it loads the Channel 2 Master it just shows as blank. Like it sees the harddrive but it doesn't want to do anything. I did set up the jumpers on the HDD for 1.5 phy. As that is what my motherboard supports.

My PC Specs:
Biostar K8M800 Micro Socket AM2 Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ Socket AM2 CPU
WD Caviar 750GB Serial ATA HD 7200/16MB/SATA-3G
2x 1024MB PC5400 DDR2 667MHz

03-19-2008, 10:41 AM	#1 (permalink)
notchristopher Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 3 OS: Windows XP	Hard drive dead? I am building a new PC and have got it up and running with an IDE harddrive. I'm trying to add a SATA drive. I have hooked it up right and it does spin when I power up the PC. I set up the BIOS (to my knowledge) correctly. When the PC starts up it shows the IDE drive as the Channel 0 master (I have loaded windows on it and it works fine). But when it loads the Channel 2 Master it just shows as blank. Like it sees the harddrive but it doesn't want to do anything. I did set up the jumpers on the HDD for 1.5 phy. As that is what my motherboard supports. My PC Specs: Biostar K8M800 Micro Socket AM2 Motherboard AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ Socket AM2 CPU WD Caviar 750GB Serial ATA HD 7200/16MB/SATA-3G 2x 1024MB PC5400 DDR2 667MHz