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hebetomato
Grandpa Ed96757 Wrote:
> There are connectors on the Motherboard for 2 SATA drives. I connected,
> booted, sighed, cried, moaned, and groaned as I looked in the bios for
> some
> indication that there was some way to turn on or enable the sata
> drives. I
> right clicked and looked at the hardware area of the information and it
> is
> not there either. When you right click and ask the system to "manage"
> nothing shows up as far as any thing SATA. Maxtor and it's max blast
> did not
> work at all, as far as formatting or identifying the drive.
>
> If the connectors are there, why can I not make the drives work?
>
> Grandpa Ed
I finally made those connectors to work. It took one whole day and a
couple of those threads.
As you saw, you must check out for VIA VT 8237 the site: 'VIA Arena -
Display Drivers' (http://tinyurl.com/7oovk) .
Finally I got to work that VIA VT8237 SATA Raid Controller by PB:
'Controllers - VIA VT8237 SATA Raid Controller drivers - 6971850000 -
Downloads - iMedia - platform_honeymoon_imedia - Desktop'
(http://tinyurl.com/689sla) .
After that must be used that 2nd thread here to find the drive after
that VIA RAID Tool has regognized it: "Start Programs Aministrative
Tools Computer Management Disk Management
should show you ALL drives on your computer, including the SATA
drives..." For formatting ++ drive E or what so ever.
As you maybe saw the Serial ATA controller was supposed to be installed
even before Windows installation (without additional soundcards etc.).
From Windows help-files can be found as well the command line options:
diskpart rescan.
From 'New URL' (http://www.samsunghdd.com) (Spinpoint T manual) I found
that no changes for the BIOS needed. IDE HDD detection works that. My
BIOS for that motherboard is from 'Software & Driver downloads HP
Pavilion a730.fi Desktop PC' (http://tinyurl.com/59few7) .
No mentioned speed limits (1.5 GB) are needed. My 3 GB works.
(link to Kelut specs: 'Motherboard Specifications, A7V8X-LA (Kelut) '
(http://tinyurl.com/5nkayn) )
Those threads help me much more.
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hebetomato
> There are connectors on the Motherboard for 2 SATA drives. I connected,
> booted, sighed, cried, moaned, and groaned as I looked in the bios for
> some
> indication that there was some way to turn on or enable the sata
> drives. I
> right clicked and looked at the hardware area of the information and it
> is
> not there either. When you right click and ask the system to "manage"
> nothing shows up as far as any thing SATA. Maxtor and it's max blast
> did not
> work at all, as far as formatting or identifying the drive.
>
> If the connectors are there, why can I not make the drives work?
>
> Grandpa Ed
I finally made those connectors to work. It took one whole day and a
couple of those threads.
As you saw, you must check out for VIA VT 8237 the site: 'VIA Arena -
Display Drivers' (http://tinyurl.com/7oovk) .
Finally I got to work that VIA VT8237 SATA Raid Controller by PB:
'Controllers - VIA VT8237 SATA Raid Controller drivers - 6971850000 -
Downloads - iMedia - platform_honeymoon_imedia - Desktop'
(http://tinyurl.com/689sla) .
After that must be used that 2nd thread here to find the drive after
that VIA RAID Tool has regognized it: "Start Programs Aministrative
Tools Computer Management Disk Management
should show you ALL drives on your computer, including the SATA
drives..." For formatting ++ drive E or what so ever.
As you maybe saw the Serial ATA controller was supposed to be installed
even before Windows installation (without additional soundcards etc.).
From Windows help-files can be found as well the command line options:
diskpart rescan.
From 'New URL' (http://www.samsunghdd.com) (Spinpoint T manual) I found
that no changes for the BIOS needed. IDE HDD detection works that. My
BIOS for that motherboard is from 'Software & Driver downloads HP
Pavilion a730.fi Desktop PC' (http://tinyurl.com/59few7) .
No mentioned speed limits (1.5 GB) are needed. My 3 GB works.
(link to Kelut specs: 'Motherboard Specifications, A7V8X-LA (Kelut) '
(http://tinyurl.com/5nkayn) )
Those threads help me much more.
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hebetomato