Difficulty Adding a Sata HD

Lucky

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Jul 28, 2006, 9:37:45 AM7/28/06

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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

Arno Wagner

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Jul 28, 2006, 11:17:53 AM7/28/06

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Have you checked the device in another comoputer?

Arno

Folkert Rienstra

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Jul 28, 2006, 11:21:21 AM7/28/06

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"Lucky" <roderic...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1154093860.2...@s13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com

> 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!!!

Good error message to punch into Google:

http://www.planetamd64.com/lofiversion/index.php/t8595.html

Lucky

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Jul 28, 2006, 12:23:30 PM7/28/06

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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.

Arno Wagner

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Jul 28, 2006, 1:36:11 PM7/28/06

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Previously Lucky <roderic...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.

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

job

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Jul 28, 2006, 7:39:31 PM7/28/06

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Did you enable SATA in the bios?

"Lucky" <roderic...@yahoo.com> wrote in message

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Folkert Rienstra

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Jul 28, 2006, 7:00:50 PM7/28/06

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"Lucky" <roderic...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1154103810.4...@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com

> 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.

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.

> Thanks for the suggestions.

Wouldn't it be nice if you actually bothered to do something with them.

Lucky

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Jul 30, 2006, 7:56:32 AM7/30/06

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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

Folkert Rienstra

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Jul 30, 2006, 3:47:31 PM7/30/06

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"Lucky" <roderic...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1154260592.0...@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com

Which you would have noticed if you had bothered to actually punch in that error message in Google, like I suggested, when I
suggested it.