Bios wont recognize hard drive

[fsrv7]

I just bought a gigabyte MA785GM-US2H and paired it with an Athlon 2 x2 240 processor in my old case and old power supply with new sata hard drive. The BIOS won't recognize the hard drive; ergo I can't re-install Windows XP. Any ideas

 

[KidHorn]

3 possibilities come to mind

1) bad sata cable.
2) sata ports not enabled in bios.
3) bad hard drive.

 

[roonj]

On the same train of thought as Kidhorn the sata drive controller in bios should be set for IDE mode with XP unless you have ACHI drivers extracted.