Hope somebody can help me out on this one, I disconnected my hard drive to install a chipset fan that had failed on my ASUS A8N-SLI motherboard and when I tried to plug in the harddrive the computer could not detect a hard drive on start up. I also checked the BIOS settings and noticed that with the drive plugged into SATA port 1 that it was also not detected in BIOS. I tried another SATA cable and another power cable to no avail since the HD, a Seagate Barracuda 7200 300 Gb, was still covererd under warranty, I sent it in and received a repaired HD. When I plugged it in I got the same problem, no disk detected on start up and BIOS. I had an old 80 Gb IDE drive that I plugged in while I was waiting for the SATA drive and it was working fine, but I want to get the SATA drive back up and running. Any ideas???? Thanks
Make sure the SATA ports are enabled in BIOS. Try a different SATA connector on the MB (couldn't tell if you did that). Does the drive turn on and spin up?
Thanks for the reply Rich-M and Norton 850 I did try a new data cable and power cable and still nothing and yes I did see that the SATA is enabled in the BIOS. Also I can hear the hard drive spin up that to me signifies that the power portion is ok but why I don't see it in BIOS has got me baffled. I also tried different SATA ports on the MOBO but can't get any of the ports to see the drive.
They could have sent you one back that doesn't work either. Seagate is having big time problems with sata drives (probably because they bought Maxtor).
Thanks for your help folks I'm going to go get an enclosure and try to see if that works. I figure it's cheaper to do than to get a new MOBO or HD. I'll post when I find out the outcome.
Thanks folks got the enclosure for the drive and Windows picked it up looks like I'm into a MOBO after all good thing that it's still covered. Time to get an RMA and wait.
Wow great follow through and thanks for come back.
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