Sataii-300

Liqourice · Jan 29, 2008, 12:37 AM

I've been scratching my head over this and I don't know what's wrong.

At work I have tried to beef up my bosses computer a bit with a large harddrive. A Seagate Barracuda 500 Gb 7200.11 SATAII-300

Problem is, the motherboard bios doesn't recognise it even if it's set at 1.5Gbit operation. For some reason the windows installer finds it partially, not that that helps in any way.

That motherboard is an MSI K9MM-V.

So.. I figured the mobo didn't support the drive so I looked around for another one that might work and didn't cost to much with a built-in graphics controller. ( I think my boss is scottish, nothing can cost anything)

As far as I could see I found the Asus M2A-MX and got that but that doesn't work either.. here it can't find any trace of the harddrive at all...

So I took the drive home to test it on my Asrock AM2NF3-VSTA and it works like a charm so the disk isn't faulty. I tried three different SATA cables at work and nothing, three different power connectors and nothing.

Shouldn't the drive be backwards compatible with the old SATA, just be slower than it can be? I'll take any hint I can get or else I have to get yet another motherboard

It's impossible to get any support from ASUS....

**kris23** · Jan 29, 2008, 01:54 AM

it should..... most boards should

the BIOS of the board doesnt recognize it?

Liqourice · Feb 1, 2008, 10:51 AM

I figured it out eventually. It was the PSU that was breaking down. It just didn't deliver enough power. After replacing that everything worked like a charm.

Jan 29, 2008, 12:37 AM	#1
Liqourice HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Stockholm Posts: 1,699 Rep Power: 98 System Specs	Sataii-300 I've been scratching my head over this and I don't know what's wrong. At work I have tried to beef up my bosses computer a bit with a large harddrive. A Seagate Barracuda 500 Gb 7200.11 SATAII-300 Problem is, the motherboard bios doesn't recognise it even if it's set at 1.5Gbit operation. For some reason the windows installer finds it partially, not that that helps in any way. That motherboard is an MSI K9MM-V. So.. I figured the mobo didn't support the drive so I looked around for another one that might work and didn't cost to much with a built-in graphics controller. ( I think my boss is scottish, nothing can cost anything) As far as I could see I found the Asus M2A-MX and got that but that doesn't work either.. here it can't find any trace of the harddrive at all... So I took the drive home to test it on my Asrock AM2NF3-VSTA and it works like a charm so the disk isn't faulty. I tried three different SATA cables at work and nothing, three different power connectors and nothing. Shouldn't the drive be backwards compatible with the old SATA, just be slower than it can be? I'll take any hint I can get or else I have to get yet another motherboard It's impossible to get any support from ASUS....

Jan 29, 2008, 01:54 AM	#2
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Feb 1, 2008, 10:51 AM	Thread Starter #3
Liqourice HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Stockholm Posts: 1,699 Rep Power: 98 System Specs	I figured it out eventually. It was the PSU that was breaking down. It just didn't deliver enough power. After replacing that everything worked like a charm.