massive headache needs your help

[micktuggy]

my pc has gone pear shaped.

i had been running vista with no problems until yesterday.

i have an abit ax8 sata motherboard which is now not detecting any drives

in the bios i am not getting any hard drives showing at all

i am trying to install another copy of vista onto a new hard drive and this snt being detected either

the new hdd is a seagate 400gb sata drive

is there a way to configure my bios to detect the drives

i have reset the cmos settings and altered the bios accordingly

the sata drivers are being asked for when i try to install vista but the ones i have downloaded are not then showing the hdd connected

all cables are crosschecked and working.the power leads are all connected properly

i am at my wits end as to how to get it working again

i have tried installing xp but even wth the motherboard sata drivers it does not show the hdd

any ideas

i have got a working hdd connected and that isnt showing either

anyone know how to get the pc to see any hard drive?????

please help

[shimano]

This happened to me with xp not vista, and I reinstalled the motherboard drivers and that fixed it ,hope it works for you.