Hard drive listed in the sys tray??

[meskalin]

Hey ...this is my new build

AMD 3400+ 64bit Newcastle
Gigabyte K8NSNXP
1Gig Corsair XMS
Lian Li V1100 Case
Hitachi 120 GB sata150 etc etc etc

Now my hard drive shows up in the sys tray as a "safly remove hardware" ??????
I just got it going and I'm having boot problems and software instalions problems...????

Any clues???

[BipolarBill]

Are you sure that the eject icon is for the SATA drive? What is your BIOS boot sequence set to? It should be floppy, CD, SCSI.

Are any card readers installed?

Have you updated the BIOS?

Have you tried updated SATA drivers?

[meskalin]

Well acctually the sequence I have is hard-disk (scsi is not listed but I guess gigabyte combined it into one section) cd rom then floppy.

I have not updated the bios and drivers are up to date I got them from the Gigabytes site.
I did have trouble installing drivers but know that I think about this windows can't let me since my registry must be screwed up since it seems like I have installed windows on a portable drive that can't give me full access. I don't know I was hoping to resolve this with out reinstalling windows again but then that's not hard but I just dont want to do it and end up with the same problem.
I guess if I do this time I will pull out the drivers from the gigabytes cd. I cant belive they cant give me a floppy with sata drivers with a 200$ mobo like that is an expense for them but that's a whole other topic.

Anyone with any ideas why this is so or how to figure this out let me know!!!

[meskalin]

Sorry ...Yes I am sure it's my hard drive listed.
NO I dont have any removable media installed.

[BipolarBill]

Check the BIOS boot sequence again. See what your choices are. If there's a "BBS-0", that's what you need. Sometimes the BIOS actually specifies the drive it sees.

Please read the manual.

[meskalin]

bbs-0 what is that?

[Imperion1]

Read the motherboard manual. It walks you through the motherboard bios.
Also, check in Device Manager, make sure the harddrive is not set as a removeable drive.

Motherboard drivers installed?

[BipolarBill]

BBS = BIOS Boot Sequence. When a drive is not SCSI and not IDE, BIOS sometimes calls it BBS. BBS-0 means that it's the first drive on that controller. The next would be BBS-1.

[meskalin]

i think that my problem is based on bad drivers for nforce3 sata ide and classic raid driver! I'll find some oether drivers and try to make it work I will let you guys know.