Hello there,
I'm a renewed computer enthusiast and it's been awhile since I've built a PC, but I recently built one, and I'm having trouble with my motherboard's BIOS and Windows 7 not recognizing my hard drive. This is a lower budget computer around $400-500 I believe.
Specs:
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 AMD970/SB950
CPU: AMD Athlon II X3 445
RAM: 8 GB Crucial Ballistix DDR3 1333 Mhz
VIDEO: ATI Radeon 6670 HD
So, the Hard Drives I bought off of eBay. They were ridiculously cheap, and fully tested.
HDD: 2 Samsung 80GB Spinpoint P Series HD080HJ/P
One hard drive booted up and did not pass the SMART test. Bad replace error I believe.
The second hard drive was never recognized by my BIOS or Windows 7 installation (both 32 and 64 bit).
Herein lies the problem. I've also tried Ubuntu 10.4 AMD-64 and it didn't recognize the HDD, either.
I've tried to change the SATA settings in the BIOS from AHCI to IDE or to RAID. Downloaded the so-called drivers from the ASUS website for the Drive Controller, the Chipset, and tried The Ultimate Boot CD HDD diagnostics.
I've changed the SATA data cable, and the power cables. I've tried changing which SATA port the HDD was connected to.
I've also referred to this sticky as well http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/265764-32-guide-installed-disk-system
I'm at a loss, and I've tried googling it and found little instructions, which I've tried, but to with no avail.
Any suggestions? Help? A brand new HDD is being shipped to me but will not arrive for another 2-3 days, so I can't test another drive. I have an external that I was considering installing Windows on and seeing what could happen from that.
Any help or information would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Giancarlo
I'm a renewed computer enthusiast and it's been awhile since I've built a PC, but I recently built one, and I'm having trouble with my motherboard's BIOS and Windows 7 not recognizing my hard drive. This is a lower budget computer around $400-500 I believe.
Specs:
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 AMD970/SB950
CPU: AMD Athlon II X3 445
RAM: 8 GB Crucial Ballistix DDR3 1333 Mhz
VIDEO: ATI Radeon 6670 HD
So, the Hard Drives I bought off of eBay. They were ridiculously cheap, and fully tested.
HDD: 2 Samsung 80GB Spinpoint P Series HD080HJ/P
One hard drive booted up and did not pass the SMART test. Bad replace error I believe.
The second hard drive was never recognized by my BIOS or Windows 7 installation (both 32 and 64 bit).
Herein lies the problem. I've also tried Ubuntu 10.4 AMD-64 and it didn't recognize the HDD, either.
I've tried to change the SATA settings in the BIOS from AHCI to IDE or to RAID. Downloaded the so-called drivers from the ASUS website for the Drive Controller, the Chipset, and tried The Ultimate Boot CD HDD diagnostics.
I've changed the SATA data cable, and the power cables. I've tried changing which SATA port the HDD was connected to.
I've also referred to this sticky as well http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/265764-32-guide-installed-disk-system
I'm at a loss, and I've tried googling it and found little instructions, which I've tried, but to with no avail.
Any suggestions? Help? A brand new HDD is being shipped to me but will not arrive for another 2-3 days, so I can't test another drive. I have an external that I was considering installing Windows on and seeing what could happen from that.
Any help or information would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Giancarlo