Re: SATA drive not recognized
- From: Paul <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:43:53 -0400
attilathehun1 wrote:
Well, I did exactly what you said to do. I went to the website, after looking at it I got spooked and didn't trust you, so I went to the mobo supplied CD and tried it over again with Windows XP Pro and the same result. Nothing! I did exactly what you said again, but this time, trusted you, and unzipped the files from your supplied website and then took the floppy and waited until the prompted F6 and pressed it, waited for the prompted S, pressed that, and then loaded up the floppy, pressed ENTER and this message appeared: Please insert the disk labeled Manufacturer-supplied hardware support disk
into Drive A:
*Press ENTER when ready
I pressed S again and the same message. In fact, this same message has appeared everytime I get to S and press ENTER. I can follow instructions somewhat, and this is what has been going on. Maybe it's something I need to do in BIOS. Or it's this mobo that I read the reviews at newegg.com about how it stunk. Maybe all those reviews were right. I thought because people were using DDR 400 RAM and there was an addendum saying not to use DDR 400, to use DDR 333 or under. That's what I did, a 512 stick of DDR 333. Ok, I tried, but no cigar. So F this, I'm fed the F up! F SATA and everything that goes with it. I have 2 brand new hard drives that are IDE hard drives. This new SAMSUNG Spinpoint SP1614C 160 GB can bite me. -- Thanks for trying!
attilathehun1
attilathehun1
First of all, "trust" and "spooked" don't apply here. You are doing a
brand new install on an empty disk drive. If it doesn't work, there
is no damage to anything. Only time wasted. It's not like there is
some danger here, like the computer will explode if the install isn't
done right :-)
When I said "partial reference", I meant that the website in question,
is addressing another Nvidia chipset. The information is "by analogy" -
since I cannot find this information for MCP61S, I'm using information
for another Nvidia chipset, as an indication of how it works.
That is why you would not use the files from that site for your
motherboard. What you can do, though, is look at the smaller download
(~400KB), to see what *kind* of files are included on a "makedisk"
driver package.
What I found interesting, is I opened the txtsetup.oem file in a text
editor, and only the RAID drivers are listed in that file. The
SATA IDE drivers were not listed. And as a consequence, there
doesn't appear to be a way for the SATA IDE drivers to be loaded
by pressing F6. Also, the tastycomputers.com web page, mentioned -
"If you have an NVIDIA nForce 4-SLI chipset and are using Parallel ATA
(IDE) hard drive(s) or SATA drives without a RAID configuration,
you should be able to use the Microsoft native storage driver built
into Windows."
So it would appear that the floppy thing, is only if you are installing
in RAID mode. If you switch the BIOS to a non-RAID mode, then the
WinXP SP1 or later, built-in native driver, should work.
If you want to try the RAID driver, you can go into the RAID BIOS
and set up a single SATA drive as a stripe-of-one array. I didn't
suggest that route, because I figured the non-RAID option, and
the WinXP native driver, had better odds of working for you.
Paul
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"Paul" wrote:
attilathehun1 wrote:I'm back in BIOS and I see SATA Spread Spectrum and it's disabled, maybe if change it to triangular down it will recognize the SATA? Let me see more here, brb. In IDE Function Setup there is Primary Master P10 and Primary Master UDMA and both are set to Auto. There are 5 more options for both of those 0, 1, 2, 3, 4. and 5. Maybe one of those should be changed to a value besides Auto?There is a partial reference to what you're doing here.
Well, I think SATA Spread Spectrum should be put back to disabled until I hear otherwise. Looks like this is going to drag on another day. This is the first time I've installed a SATA drive. Oh yeah, I tried my keyboard that I use on my Dell 8300 that I know F6 works and when I pressed F6 when prompted to do so, nothing happened, the OS didn't pause and kept loading until it came to a point where it said no mass device or something to that nature is recognized. I've had to F3 this setup 10 times or more. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks, attilathehun1
http://tastycomputers.com/support/download/nvidiaraid-4.htm
The Nvidia SATA interfaces have two modes, either RAID or IDE.
For RAID, you press F6 and install a driver. Then press S and
install a second instance (as the RAID driver stack has
two components).
But if you have disabled RAID (the BIOS may have come with it
disabled), then the default Microsoft driver on the Microsoft
CD should have worked. As long as your WinXP CD is at least
Service Pack 1 level or greater.
I would try without RAID enabled, and see if WinXP will install
without any added drivers, as a first attempt. You don't need to
mess with anything other than the "RAID enabled or disabled"
setting. Leave the rest of it alone.
Paul
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