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Hello All,

Here's what I got. I just built a new rig, with the ASUS AV8 motherboard. I'm installing a Western Digital 160GB HD, but the machine doesn't recognize it on boot. I put the same drive in my other machine, and it's recognized, so I know the drive is good. I put an WD80GB in the AV8 machine, and it recognized it, so apparantly it just has issues with 160GB. Any suggestions?

I assume it's an IDE drive? Make sure the jumper settings are correct and it's on a good cable.

Sorry, It's a SATA drive, plugged into the RAID 1 slot.

Are the SATA ports enabled in the BIOS?

Vindicator wrote:Are the SATA ports enabled in the BIOS?

^ What he said

Yes, the 80GB harddrive is recognized just fine on the board, it apparantly just has a problem with a larger size.

just to be clear.. all drives are SATA, or is one IDE?

Every drive I've put in it is SATA, the one that worked (the 80GB) and the one that doesn't, the 160 gb

Thats some weird stuff, is there any BIOS updates out for your board?

hell, it's probably a pooched interface. try and exchange it.

Yeah, I wonder about BIOS updates, check into your board and see if there are any updates that address issues with the SATA ports. You have more then one SATA port right? Try to drive on the other one.

The ASUS A8V (I think ABIT made a board with the model number AV8) is an old motherboard that has the VT8237 southbridge, which was the first southbridge to sport integrated SATA. If your 160GB drive supports SATA2, you probably need to set the jumpers on it to force the drive to SATA1, as some newer drives have trouble detecting early SATA chipsets.

Don't you just love computers?

Thanks to Patches, changing the jumper setting worked perfectly.