Initial Setup Hard Drive Problems

[mauidiver15]

Hey there everyone,
This is my first post here, I joined to get help with this problem. I read other threads about the same problem, but the solutions on those threads did not work for me for who knows what reason.

Anyway, I have a new Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard with a Athlon XP 2500+. Looking at the MB's features, I saw it had serial ATA support, so I got a Seagate 80 GB 7200 rpm Hard drive, part #: ST380013A.

Got everything plugged in, set the jumpers to allow Serial ATA - Started up the system. I then used Seagates Disk Wizard (or something like that) program to install the drive. After that I made sure the BIOS was set for the third boot device to be SCSI, as mentioned to do in this thread: http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthre...=a7n8x+serial.

Anyway, so I try to install Windows XP, it doesn't detect a hard drive. The raid setup does detect it because I see it listed in a menu to setup for raid.

What is going on? How do I get my hard drive to work?

I am new at this so I do accept that I could have made mistakes, but it doesn't seem like it, I've double checked the above things plenty of times.

Thanks for the help,

Chris

[BipolarBill]

Simple and common mistake. When Setup begins, you'll see "Setup is inspecting hardware..." on the top of the screen and "Press F6 to load 3rd-party storage drivers..." or similar on the bottom. You must press F6 here and have the SATA drivers ready on a floppy disk when Windows asks for them.

That's all it is.

[mauidiver15]

Alright, thanks for the help, that is definitely what I was missing...

But - I don't have drivers, where can I find them, I've searched Seagate.com, and found nothing, just their diskwizard.

Thanks again for the help.

[Midknyte]

hard drives don't have drivers. he means the serial ATA card drivers. they should have come with the motherboard. if not, download them from the motherboard manufacturer's website.

[mauidiver15]

ohhh, ok. Like I said, new to building my own computer.

Thanks, I'll do that.

[Midknyte]

no problemo. you won't learn anything unless you ask questions.

There are no stupid questions. Just stupid people that don't ask questions.

[mauidiver15]

well, that took care of it, windows is installing now. Thanks alot guys, couldn't have got through that w/o your help. =)

[mauidiver15]

Well, I got all of that worked out, but there is one more problem...

I have an AMD XP 2500+, but the computer thinks the processor is 1.1GHz. I believe that an XP 2500+ runs at 1800 some odd MHz.

I saw modifiers in the BIOS to change some things kinda like this... but I wouldn't know what to put in.

How do I fix this problem?

Thanks

[BipolarBill]

Change the Host Clock (FSB) to 166MHz in BIOS setup.

[mauidiver15]

Thanks,

All set up now.