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HELP - PC Building

  • 11-02-2006 8:13pm
    #1
    columth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭


    Guys,

    I am putting my PC together and having some trouble with my Hard Drive, its a 'Samsung SpinPoint P120S 250GB SATA2'. I have connected it properly and can see that it is detected as the name of it is displayed when the PC boots up. However when I try to install windows it tells me that I have no hard drive installed.

    Any help?? Please??

    The motherboard I am using is a Sapphire Pure Innovation, Socket-939, ATI RX480+SB450, ATX, GbLAN, PCI-Ex16


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  • #2
    SouperComputer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭SouperComputer


    Xp setup only has provision for a limited amount of SATA controllers.

    When the OS disk boots, you need to hit F6 to specify drivers for your SATA controller. You will need a floppy disk to do this.


  • #3
    Dotsie~tmp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,428 ✭✭✭Dotsie~tmp


    What Souper said. SATA2 boards might need drivers that arent on the WinXP setup disk. Its the floppy disk that usualy has the SATA-RAID drivers if u are using just a SATA board. Otherwise maybe these might help.

    -Are you sure you have connected it to the first SATA slot (though im unsure if this is mandatory). Have you connected it to the IDE port by mistake or done something weird like connecting both IDE and SATA cables (just guessing here)

    -Which version of windows are you installing? A disk that size could cause problems when installing Win2000 or anything lower. Stay away from WinME and Win98 with 250GB disks they give headaches.

    -Is the HDD new? Are you sure its partitioned and formatted? WinXP should make this process fairly painless. Im assuming your even getting as far as the partition/format process, are you? If you are partitioning try maybe setting the primary partition to less than 137GB.

    -If your getting this message before then it sounds like a hardware problem. Check the bootable device order list in the BIOS and make sure your HDD is listed as the first device.

    -Havent used a disk and board with SATA2 yet. Is ther some specific ports enabled only for SATA2 or maybe some jumpers or switches need toggling on the board or disk (again just guessing)

    Double check your connections and report back here with the details requested.


  • #4
    columth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭columth


    Cheers guys..turned out to be a fairly simple connection issue.

    I have encountered another problem though. I have windows prof x64 installed now but cant install the drivers for my motherboard. The error I am getting is 'Stop Run on MB!'.

    The motherboard is a Sapphire Pure Innovation, Socket-939, ATI RX480+SB450, ATX, GbLAN, PCI-Ex16


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