fracturedmind

I just got a 36.7gig WD Raptor (10,000 rpm) Serial-ATA Hard-Drive.

For the record, I have a MSI K7N2 Delta (nForce 2 Ultra) motherboard, it has 2 SATA connections, both are the same thing, just for using two drives.

I hooked up the SATA drive to the connection, and hooked up the power, and powered on my computer... it didn't detect the drive at first.

I of course looked through my BIOS, there *is* no option for Serial-ATA, there isn't a way to turn it on or off in the BIOS, there is no Serial-ATA or SATA mentioned anywhere (I looked thru every option, and in the descriptions in the manual - also, this is the newest BIOS)

I rebooted a few times, messing with the cords, I tried pulling the power and waiting some... finally it actually detected it (by the way, in the BIOS is doesn't put it with IDE Drives, which I guess makes sense, but there is *no* way to see that it actually detected my drive unless I boot Windows XP/Linux CD and try to install to drive, etc)...

Anyways, it detected... yay, I even installed Windows XP fine, I got in, updated some stuff, and rebooted. Didn't detect it. Nothing changed.

So I waited some, I messed with wires some, rebooted tons... after waiting a bit, it detected again, loaded windows... but it stopped halfway through (guess it lost the connection again).

So... the HD does work, it is there, I just only get to see it once in a blue moon, and I don't even change anything and the next time I boot, it doesn't work.

Also, it should be noted that when I pull the plug from my comp, and wait a few minutes, and plug it in, more often than not it detects the drive for a second, and starts trying to run the RAID Setup Program (which it doesn't do when it doesn't find it at all) then crashes...

Any ideas? This is pissing me off.

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