My Motherboard can't detect SATA Components..WHY???!!

[ROBO_DUDE]

I have a MSI motherbooard, my problem is that mty board can't detect SATA components? i have check all the electrical, sata connection its good i try putting my SATA on y other pc it's work very fine...so please help me to fix my problem....

 

[vwgtipowr]

Check the BIOS, maybe the SATA needs to be enabled somewhere.

Maybe there is some online MSI help as well.
The board could be bad, but that is probably unlikely.

 

[ROBO_DUDE]

I put the bios on default, so i think when ever i plug a sata drive it should be detected automaticaly??

 

[jay2tall]

Which mobo do you have? I know with my ASUS there are different Sata connections for the RAID and just a stand alone sata. or at least the boot drives need to be in a certain interface. Read the manual and make sure it is in the sata 0 plug.

 

[Guest]

try and see if your sata is running in raid mode, i know that ive had some motherboards that wouldnt detect a single sata drive until i turned off raid.

 

[Guest]

Which mobo do you have? I know with my ASUS there are different Sata connections for the RAID and just a stand alone sata. or at least the boot drives need to be in a certain interface. Read the manual and make sure it is in the sata 0 plug.

Hello... I've got a problem with my ASUS mohterboard...it's version is ASUS K8M-VX... Whenever i plugged in my SATA DVD writer it works properly...but whenever i plugged in my SATA HDD it just won't detect the two...(DVD Writer and HDD)... Please help me... Best regards...

 

[Slim Shady]

I am trying to install a 250gb Hitachi SATA drive. After installing it, the BIOS can see that SATA drive but when I tried to load windows XP, the computer could not find it. I believe this to be a driver problem. My motherboard is an ASUS A8V Deluxe . The BIOS is 1017 (which is the newest available) 1018 is only a Beta.

First of all I created two diskettes, 378 ATA and 378 Raid. In the BIOS I had the 'Onboard SATA Bootrom - enabled', 'Onboard Promise Controller - enabled' and Operating mode set as Raid Mode'.

When I start the computer, I had it boot up from the CDRom. As soon as it starts to load Windows I pressed F6. In the next screen I installed both the 378 ATA and 378 Raid from those two diskettes. When I tried to load windowsXP it still can't see the drive.

I have downloaded the Hitachi Feature Tool and had the drive set up as SATA 1. There is a choice of either Enable or Disable 'Spread Spectrum Clocking'. As I do not know what it is I had it Disabled.
I have spend over 6 hours on installing the SATA drive with no success. I am now totally lost in knowing what to try next.

Since I tried to install the SATA drive a message keep coming up in the boot up process saying 'No drive attached to Fasttrak controller, The BIOS is not installed'. Is it possible to get rid of that message?