SATA Does Not Appear In BIOS

Shulamitefire · 01-09-2007, 03:37 PM

I have a SATA 1 as my third disk for my ASUS A8N-E board with a 500 watt Aspire power supply and it does not appear in BIOS. All four SATA ports are enabled. It is plugged into the SATA 3 connection on the board. My other drives are SATA 1 & SATA 2. Switched the data and power cables from a working disk, so the problem does not appear to be with cabling. Checked & rechecked for secure cable connections. The drive does not even spin up.

Any help is much appreciated!

**PanamaGal** · 01-09-2007, 04:40 PM

Did you try the SATA 4 connection? If you did, and nothing, I would try a drive that you know works in the SATA 3 port. It sounds like you either have some bad SATA ports on the board (unlikely) or the hard drive is dead (likely).

**linderman** · 01-11-2007, 07:04 AM

which sata controller operates sata ports 3 &4 ?

many onboard motherboard sata controllers only support two channels. Like ports 1 & 2

often times you must install the drivers for the additional sata/raid controller to "see" and use the drive. otherwise if the controller cant communicate with the bios, the system doesnt know the new drive is in the game ?

EDIT ***** after looking at your boards manual, all four sata ports are operated by the same controller; therefore, I would try connecting the new drive using the same cable and same power connector curretnly being used by a drive thats operating on sata port 1 or 2

sounds like you have a defective drive? unless its a cable or power problem

post back with your progress

Shulamitefire · 01-14-2007, 12:35 PM

Thanks Joe. I did exactly that; issue remained unresolved. Power supply powers the other drives and entire system without any apparent poblems. I switched power and data cabling from the other working drives, and switched to their ports. Drive does not even spin up.

Actually, after talking with two techs two different days at the place of my purchase, I got an RMA and a refund is promised. I do not need two Raptors, anyway. RAID in the real world for my desktop applications provides at most very minimal performance. Really, I only bought it to replace the Raptor that you a little later got back running for me with your DBAN prescription - Darak's Nuke and Boot.

Thanks, too, PanamaGal.

Stephen

**linderman** · 01-14-2007, 02:14 PM

happy to hear you have things "sorted"

01-09-2007, 03:37 PM	#1 (permalink)
Shulamitefire Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 5 OS: Win XP Pro	SATA Does Not Appear In BIOS I have a SATA 1 as my third disk for my ASUS A8N-E board with a 500 watt Aspire power supply and it does not appear in BIOS. All four SATA ports are enabled. It is plugged into the SATA 3 connection on the board. My other drives are SATA 1 & SATA 2. Switched the data and power cables from a working disk, so the problem does not appear to be with cabling. Checked & rechecked for secure cable connections. The drive does not even spin up. Any help is much appreciated!

01-09-2007, 04:40 PM	#2 (permalink)
PanamaGal Mentor Hardware Team Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Panama Posts: 1,240 OS: WinXP Pro SP2; Windows Server 2003; Windows Vista Ultimate; Vista Business	Did you try the SATA 4 connection? If you did, and nothing, I would try a drive that you know works in the SATA 3 port. It sounds like you either have some bad SATA ports on the board (unlikely) or the hard drive is dead (likely). __________________ It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

01-11-2007, 07:04 AM	#3 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 19,384 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	which sata controller operates sata ports 3 &4 ? many onboard motherboard sata controllers only support two channels. Like ports 1 & 2 often times you must install the drivers for the additional sata/raid controller to "see" and use the drive. otherwise if the controller cant communicate with the bios, the system doesnt know the new drive is in the game ? EDIT *** after looking at your boards manual, all four sata ports are operated by the same controller; therefore, I would try connecting the new drive using the same cable and same power connector curretnly being used by a drive thats operating on sata port 1 or 2 sounds like you have a defective drive? unless its a cable or power problem post back with your progress __________________ Even a Broken Clock is Right Twice a Day !** Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial Last edited by linderman; 01-11-2007 at 07:30 AM.

01-14-2007, 12:35 PM	#4 (permalink)
Shulamitefire Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 5 OS: Win XP Pro	SATA Does Not Appear In BIOS Thanks Joe. I did exactly that; issue remained unresolved. Power supply powers the other drives and entire system without any apparent poblems. I switched power and data cabling from the other working drives, and switched to their ports. Drive does not even spin up. Actually, after talking with two techs two different days at the place of my purchase, I got an RMA and a refund is promised. I do not need two Raptors, anyway. RAID in the real world for my desktop applications provides at most very minimal performance. Really, I only bought it to replace the Raptor that you a little later got back running for me with your DBAN prescription - Darak's Nuke and Boot. Thanks, too, PanamaGal. Stephen

01-14-2007, 02:14 PM	#5 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 19,384 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	happy to hear you have things "sorted" __________________ Even a Broken Clock is Right Twice a Day ! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial