I've been trying to connect my IDE hard drive to my new sata mobo and I can't get the mobo to recognise the HDD.
I've bought an IDE to SATA connector and plugged it in an set it up and it doesn't recognise it.
The mobo is a Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 SKT-AM3+. Does anyone know of a way I can fix this or how I have to tinker with the BIOS to get the HDD to recognise it?
Did you power the IDE to SATA adapter ? Do you have a picture or a link to the one you have ? Most people forget to put the power to it they normally use the floppy power connector.
What I've found is my motherboard has 6 sata ports on the mobo. When I connect my hard drive to the ports numbered 0, 1, 2 or 3, my graphics card fails to produce a picture on the screen.
As well as not showing a picture, the computer doesn't "beep" to signal that's it's started up, even though all the fans are whirring and lights are on.
Could be a bad ide to sata converter ? It shouldn't lock up the board something is wrong. Is the ide drive jumpered as a "master" it needs to be as all sata devices are a master on each port thus one sata device per sata port. Does the board get into bios with a sata drive connected ?
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