I am trying to add two new SATA HDD to my system and they will not be recognized at all. I have an asus a8v deluxe motherboard. i am running windows vista home premium 32bit installed on my ide hdd. my system is running but it will not recognize the new SATA hdds. i cannot get the two new hdds to show up. can anyone help? thank you
It's been a long time since I use this board But AFAIK, you need to install drivers. Promise SATA378 Driver V1.00.0.26 for Windows 98SE/NT4.0/ME/2000/XP/2003 Try downloading from Asus support site.
Driver should update via Windows Update in Vista anyway ... Would not recommend to use one for an older Win-version. PS: Or did you just not create partitions on them by now? ^^
I did what you said and i had only one place to add drive F with 9mb of unallocated space block and the second drive could not be added because there is not a place for another unallocated volume block. Drive F shows up as only having 9mb of volume in my computer. what do i need to do next?
just press the "print screen" button on the keyboard, it will just take a screenshot of your pc. then just paste it in Ms Paint. save it & upload it to here as an attachment
just as i thought, Disk 1 & Disk 2 is not displayed in your windows. I'm not so familair with SATA using drivers. Its either you did not install the SATA drivers. or you did not enabled them in the BIOS
Check if your device manager has '!' exclamation mark on any devices. I suspect there's no SATA driver installed as A8V requires separate drivers for XP, not sure about Vista.
I get the message: SATA 378 tx2PLUS BIOS 1.00.0.03 is not installed I have ! on a few different hardware devices: Marvell Yukon A bus host controller RAID Controller each of these devices have ! by them.
Marvell Yukon Vista x86 -> http://www.marvell.com/drivers/driverDisplay.do?dId=101&pId=39 VIA 8237 RAID Vista x86 -> http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=420&OSID=36&CatID=2920&SubCatID=143 IEEE 1394 -> I'd recommend to disable it via BIOS if you have no use for it. For Promise SATA: If you get this msg while booting it looks like there's no HD found by the controller itself (has nothing to do with Vista or its drivers in the first place). So it is somehow not configured properly or the drives are not connected the right way. Check the options set in the BIOS ... [Advanced] [Onboard Device Configuration] OnChip SATA BootROM -> [Disabled] OnBoard Promise Controller -> [Enabled] Operating Mode [IDE Operation] First you have to make sure the controller itself is able to find the disks, then we'll see what to do with Vista. ^^ PS: Check if you did connect the disks to the VIA SATA and not the Promise SATA. Btw. ... got this board some time ago myself and it's a good one in overall, but its SATA-functionality is somehow bad.
