Re: Enable Sata Drive on Asus A7V8X-LA (KELUT) motherboard.

[Guest hebetomato]

Re: Enable Sata Drive on Asus A7V8X-LA (KELUT) motherboard.

 

Grandpa Ed;96757 Wrote:

> There are connectors on the Motherboard for 2 SATA drives. I connected,

> booted, sighed, cried, moaned, and groaned as I looked in the bios for

> some

> indication that there was some way to turn on or enable the sata

> drives. I

> right clicked and looked at the hardware area of the information and it

> is

> not there either. When you right click and ask the system to "manage"

> nothing shows up as far as any thing SATA. Maxtor and it's max blast

> did not

> work at all, as far as formatting or identifying the drive.

>

> If the connectors are there, why can I not make the drives work?

>

> Grandpa Ed

 

I finally made those connectors to work. It took one whole day and a

couple of those threads.

As you saw, you must check out for VIA VT 8237 the site: 'VIA Arena -

Display Drivers' (http://tinyurl.com/7oovk) .

Finally I got to work that VIA VT8237 SATA Raid Controller by PB:

'Controllers - VIA VT8237 SATA Raid Controller drivers - 6971850000 -

Downloads - iMedia - platform_honeymoon_imedia - Desktop'

(http://tinyurl.com/689sla) .

 

After that must be used that 2nd thread here to find the drive after

that VIA RAID Tool has regognized it: "Start; Programs; Aministrative

Tools; Computer Management; Disk Management

should show you ALL drives on your computer, including the SATA

drives..." For formatting ++ drive E or what so ever.

As you maybe saw the Serial ATA controller was supposed to be installed

even before Windows installation (without additional soundcards etc.).

From Windows help-files can be found as well the command line options:

diskpart rescan.

 

From 'New URL' (http://www.samsunghdd.com) (Spinpoint T manual) I found

that no changes for the BIOS needed. IDE HDD detection works that. My

BIOS for that motherboard is from 'Software & Driver downloads HP

Pavilion a730.fi Desktop PC' (http://tinyurl.com/59few7) .

No mentioned speed limits (1.5 GB) are needed. My 3 GB works.

(link to Kelut specs: 'Motherboard Specifications, A7V8X-LA (Kelut) '

(http://tinyurl.com/5nkayn) )

 

Those threads help me much more.

 

 

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