Behemoth Posted March 5, 2008 Posted March 5, 2008 Hi there, Today I bought a new western digital 320gb (3200 aaks) I plugged it in to sata port number 3 and booted up but the bios doesn't detect the new drive. It isn't detected even if I have it plugged in by itself, or with only one other drive. I noticed though that when I put it in the place of my 2nd drive none of the drives were detected but I'm guessing its an issue to do with it being a sata II drive but ive tried the jumper settings to limit it to sata I speed and it still didnt do anything. So any help would be greatly appreciated! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted March 5, 2008 Posted March 5, 2008 Your motherboard supports 3.0Gb/SataII drives. Try letting the system detect it from the eSATA connection. Try it on another system, might be faulty.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Behemoth Posted March 6, 2008 Posted March 6, 2008 I don't have an esata port on mine and I dont have another system to test it on either. Is there anything else i can try? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted March 6, 2008 Posted March 6, 2008 Do you have the ports set for RAID? Or shut off entirely? Have you tried using different cables? Be sure to use the default jumper settings for the drive. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Behemoth Posted March 6, 2008 Posted March 6, 2008 I've just tried the drive on a friends computer and his bios detected it straight away so its not a faulty drive! Yay! I'm not sure what the ports are set too, im not running any drives in raid so its prob not set to that. Ive also tried different cables with no result. And there was no jumper on the drive when i got it so ive left it as is. Ive also flashed to a different bios and that had no effect either. I'm getting very frustrated at this. Why can't a piece of hardware just work when you plug it in for a change! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReelFiles Posted March 6, 2008 Posted March 6, 2008 Plug and Pray... That's an odd issue, did you try a different data or power cable? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Behemoth Posted March 7, 2008 Posted March 7, 2008 Oh dear, how ashamed I am to admit what the problem was. I double checked that cables again and the molex cable I had plugged into was from a fan I had disconnected and it infact was not connected to anything! So I plugged the power into a different molex plug and there you go the hard drive works. Sorry to all you guys who tried to help! Next time I wont be so foolish! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.