Enter the bios and make sure you have the sata controller enabled. In addition there are two settings for the controller; raid or ide. Again make sure it is set for the mode you are using ie standard ide.

 

The only settings that I have in my BIOS relating to RAID or SATA are "OnChip SATA Boot ROM (Enabled)"

 

It should be under integrated peripherals. The ami bios is a little strange to navigate.

 

One other thing, when you go to device manager are there any yellow marks?

 

Have you installed the sata drivers that came with the motherboard?

 

Nope there aren't any yellow marks in device manager and yes I did install the mobo SATA drivers. The thing is, the HD works perfect in two computers at the shop (although they aren't ASUS mobo's), I have read around the place that it could be a conflict with the ASUS mobo as supposedly WD SATA drives aren't true SATA drives?

 

I am running two sata WD drives in raid0 on an asus a8v deluxe mb. They work fine.

Have you found the sata controller under integrated peripherals?

 

Nope there aren't any yellow marks in device manager and yes I did install the mobo SATA drivers. The thing is, the HD works perfect in two computers at the shop (although they aren't ASUS mobo's), I have read around the place that it could be a conflict with the ASUS mobo as supposedly WD SATA drives aren't true SATA drives?

I am with cdjdriver--my bet is there is a BIOS setting you need to change. Not only did my ASUS MOBO not recognize the drive, but it would crash the computer because it was set for SATA rather than standard IDE. Unless you configure SATAs for RAID on ASUS Mobos, you have to set the BIOS to standard IDE--at least its that way with my board.

I checked your manual and the only thing I can see that might change the setting is to disable the OnChip SATA Boot ROM. The other suggestion is that ASUS has a forum like this one that is very helpful in figuring out these quirky problems that come up with ASUS boards.

 

Have you found the sata controller under integrated peripherals?

No, like I said there is only the one option "OnChip SATA Boot ROM"

I have no problem setting it as an IDE, I just wanted the extra storage space

I posted on the ASUS forum but haven't had a reply, generally find it better to post on a couple forums at once and collect the replies.

Thanks for your help guys and any that might be coming :up:

 

No, like I said there is only the one option "OnChip SATA Boot ROM"

I have no problem setting it as an IDE, I just wanted the extra storage space

I posted on the ASUS forum but haven't had a reply, generally find it better to post on a couple forums at once and collect the replies.

Thanks for your help guys and any that might be coming :up:

Did you try disabling the OnChip SATA Boot ROM.

 

Ok, the onchip sata boot rom must be enabled. To enter the raid bios, hit the tab key during the post. I have not used a socket 754 asus board, it may have a setting in the raid bios. You can check this out by following the above.

 

I got it going, ended up putting a jumper on pins 5 & 6 on the SATA drive, I don't know if I did the wrong thing but it works lol. The only hitch is that it seems to take about 10 - 15 seconds to access anything on the drive.

Would it be more wise to make it my main boot drive? If I do, what jumper settings do I set the two IDE drives at?

Thanks again

 

Just a couple of questions. Did you enable SATA Boot ROM as crjdriver suggested? When you say it's not in BIOS do you mean that it's not listed as an available boot device, since I think that's the only place that you would see it? You said no yellow marks in Device Manager, but was the drive listed at all before the jumper change?

Pins 5 and 6 on WD drives are for "factory use" only and I can't think of any reason why you should have to cover those to get a working drive. So I don't think the problem has really been solved, especially since you are having access problems. Which also means that at present you certainly don't want the SATA as your boot drive.

The IDE drives if they are on the standare IDE connectors need to be configured as master/slave or cable select as "usual".

 

Did you enable SATA Boot ROM as crjdriver suggested?

Yes, it was already enabled

When you say it's not in BIOS do you mean that it's not listed as an available boot device

It wasn't anywhere in the BIOS at all in anyway, I couldn't even access the Raid menu - the one where you press TAB to access. Now it is in BIOS & Windows, and I can access the RAID menu