Well, my old Maxtor 80 gig hard drive was about to die, so I took out out and bought a brand new Seagate 320 gig SATA drive.
I get the drive, plug er all in and nothing, not detecting the drive.
To make a very long story short, here's the deal:
The Seagate 320 gig SATA drive works because I tried it in another machine but it won't work in mine.
Regular Parallel ATA drives work in my computer, because.....welll, I've always used them in it.
My motherboard (ASUS K8V SE Deluxe) does support SATA because it says it does and it has the 2 SATA ports on it.
I updated the BIOS to the very newest edition, so it damn well should be picking up the SATA drive, but it isn't. A local computer tech tried every combination in the BIOS and everything he knew how to get the drive working, but the computer just won't recognize it!
So, here's my question. Did anyone have any similar problems or hear of anything similar to this?
I have a BF2142 beta key and need to play that game quick or I'm going to lose it
I get the drive, plug er all in and nothing, not detecting the drive.
To make a very long story short, here's the deal:
The Seagate 320 gig SATA drive works because I tried it in another machine but it won't work in mine.
Regular Parallel ATA drives work in my computer, because.....welll, I've always used them in it.
My motherboard (ASUS K8V SE Deluxe) does support SATA because it says it does and it has the 2 SATA ports on it.
I updated the BIOS to the very newest edition, so it damn well should be picking up the SATA drive, but it isn't. A local computer tech tried every combination in the BIOS and everything he knew how to get the drive working, but the computer just won't recognize it!
So, here's my question. Did anyone have any similar problems or hear of anything similar to this?
I have a BF2142 beta key and need to play that game quick or I'm going to lose it