Guest hebetomato Posted July 10, 2008 Posted July 10, 2008 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. -- hebetomato
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