Difficulty Adding a Sata HD

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Lucky

I have a pair of IDE SG HD working fine and I have tried to install an
SG ST3400633AS Sata HD and cannot get my system to recognize this drive
when it is connected. I get the message:

HardWare Initiate failed, please check device!!!


The Bios does not be installed. Press <g> to continue!

I have a K8T800 MB with a VIA VT8237 chipset. I have already flashed
the the BIOS with the latest version and have entered the Bios and
enabled the peripherals for a sata drive without a solution .

I am out of ideas any suggestions please.


TIA
Lucky
 
Previously Lucky said:
I have a pair of IDE SG HD working fine and I have tried to install an
SG ST3400633AS Sata HD and cannot get my system to recognize this drive
when it is connected. I get the message:
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HardWare Initiate failed, please check device!!!

The Bios does not be installed. Press <g> to continue!
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I have a K8T800 MB with a VIA VT8237 chipset. I have already flashed
the the BIOS with the latest version and have entered the Bios and
enabled the peripherals for a sata drive without a solution .
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I am out of ideas any suggestions please.
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Have you checked the device in another comoputer?

Arno
 
Arno,

I don't have another machine to put the drive into and with all of the
fan noise I cannot hear if the drive is spinning or not. Although i
only get the error message when the drive is plugged in.

Folkert,

I am sorry but i forgot to mention that I did install those drivers.
All with no luck.

Thanks for the suggestions.
 
Previously Lucky said:
Arno,
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I don't have another machine to put the drive into and with all of the
fan noise I cannot hear if the drive is spinning or not. Although i
only get the error message when the drive is plugged in.
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Spinning is not necessarily a sign of health. Modern drives
auto-spin, i.e. they start spinning when there is power.

I really think you need to try this disk in a different system.
At present I would say it is either a broken controller or a broken
disk. Unlikely, but possible (have seen it once so far) is
a broken or badly manufactured SATA cable.

Arno
 
Lucky said:
Arno,

I don't have another machine to put the drive into and with all of the
fan noise I cannot hear if the drive is spinning or not. Although i
only get the error message when the drive is plugged in.

Folkert,

I am sorry but i forgot to mention that I did install those drivers.
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Who said anything about drivers?

This is what was of interest:
computerguy9:
"I had the same problem as described in the first post. I called ASUS tech
support at 502-995-0883, option 3. Turns out the K8V boards (*) do
NOT support SATA2 -- only 150mb/s SATA. I was able to add a jumper
across two pins at the back of the WD drive to make it run in "150mb/s
only" mode (directions were written on the label on the top of the drive).

That solved the problem. "

(*) Read: boards with VIA chipset
All with no luck.
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Thanks for the suggestions.
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Wouldn't it be nice if you actually bothered to do something with them.
 
Folkert said:
Who said anything about drivers?

This is what was of interest:
computerguy9:
"I had the same problem as described in the first post. I called ASUS tech
support at 502-995-0883, option 3. Turns out the K8V boards (*) do
NOT support SATA2 -- only 150mb/s SATA. I was able to add a jumper
across two pins at the back of the WD drive to make it run in "150mb/s
only" mode (directions were written on the label on the top of the drive).

That solved the problem. "

(*) Read: boards with VIA chipset



Wouldn't it be nice if you actually bothered to do something with them.
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This also solved my problem with the Seagate drive. See this link.

http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.aspx?catid=20&threadid=73344&enterthread=y
 
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