A8N32-SLI and Seagate Barracuda 200GB SATA problem

Having just major upgraded to the A8N32-SLI along with a Seagate Barracuda 200GB SATA HDD, i've encountered a problem whereby all the drive does it spin up all the time and isn't detected in the bios (ver 1205).

Did the drive arrive D.O.A or does the motherboard need some readjustment doing?

I've noticed that this mobo does seem to be a bit twitchy.

Any help wolud be welcome.

nothing shows up in device manager and bios which is a bit worrying, going to try and external SATA adapter and plug it into the silicon external SATA plug to see if it picks it up that way.

tried all cables that came with mobo and different power cable plus all SATA channels and still no joy. hopefully hooknig up the drive via the external SATA connection will reveal some information.

I'm not sure if this mobo is the same but...

Sometimes there is an extra SATA RAID "bios" which will come up just after or during the POST. It may say something like "Press ALT-F" or similiar.

This mini "bios" usually controls the 3rd-party raid/sata chip. If its there you may have to enable a single drive raid to get it to work.

I would have hoped that an A8N32-SLI would have done away with this kind of SATA system but its worth having a look.

If the mobo does have these settings it might be easier to move the sata cable to another connector on the motherboard, maybe in the other block of connectors.

Cheers.

P.S. I looked at a picture of your mainboard, are you plugging the sata cable into one of the 4 black connectors, or the lonely red one. It should be in the black ones as I understand.