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Help me whit sata on this motherboard!! PLEase!

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November 30, 2006 10:54:07 PM

Hello guys, first of all I win a WD320gb sataII 16mb. Ok my motherboard is an ASUS A7v600-x whit Via KT600 chip. I put my HD in the computer, and says there is no HD (didnt recogniced). I put this HD in my friends computer, whit Nforce4 chip, and it recongnice the drive like a charm, even when I get in windows I see the HD.

The questions are, is the board supports sata, and the HD is sata II, is there any conflict? I mean those motherboard that only support sata dont recognice sata II, or it doestn matter?

Ahhh!!, another thing, I ran the via sata thing in the bios, and the same results, says that there is no HD :x :x

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December 1, 2006 12:31:17 PM

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Hello guys, first of all I win a WD320gb sataII 16mb. Ok my motherboard is an ASUS A7v600-x whit Via KT600 chip. I put my HD in the computer, and says there is no HD (didnt recogniced). I put this HD in my friends computer, whit Nforce4 chip, and it recongnice the drive like a charm, even when I get in windows I see the HD.

The questions are, is the board supports sata, and the HD is sata II, is there any conflict? I mean those motherboard that only support sata dont recognice sata II, or it doestn matter?

Ahhh!!, another thing, I ran the via sata thing in the bios, and the same results, says that there is no HD :x :x


Check the drive label, for the position of the jumper to enable sata150 or SATA1.. your controller don't support SATAII interface, only SATA1, so the drive has to downgarde its interface to SATA1 with the jumper
December 1, 2006 2:14:17 PM

Yes - Pat has it, your mobo was among the first to support 200FSB Athlon and also SATA. These early SATA do not always recognize a huge modern SATA2-300 drive.
Notably, Seagate HDs come jumpered for SATA-150. You must change the jumper to enable SATA2-300...
But I have a WD 320GB here and it is the opposite - it comes SATA2-300 and you must jumper it to SATA-150.
Check that out and let us know, you should then be okay.
Note: SATA-150 interface should be identical performance, as the HDs themselves are not able to exceed 150MB/s.
The very fastest HDs - WD Raptors - are SATA150.
Regards
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