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arj

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I have an ASUS A8v motherboard with a VT8237 chipset. I have recently bought A Western Digital WD2500KS Caviar SE 250GB 7200RPM SATA2/300 16MB hard drive, the trouble being that the hard drive is not being detected. Could this be to do with the motherboard using sata 1 and the drive sata 2?Please can someone advise me what to do, eg do I need some sort of adapter to convert from sata 1 to sata 2????
 
Hey Arj, it seems all versions of the VT8237 chipset were designed for SATA Type I. So if you are using a SATA Type II drive with the VT8237 you will have to follow the manufacturers jumper settings to lock the data rate to 150mb/sec in order for the drive to be recognized.

Here's a link to a .pdf document about setting the jumper on the back of your HDD.

I hope this helps,

Greetings,

Marcus
 
Where is it not being detected? In BIOS or in Windows?
It's not the SATA connection. SATA I and II are cross compatible. SATA II just offers a faster burst rate over SATA I.
 
Thanks for the comments guys.

The drive is not detected in BIOS, as I am freshly installing windows. I have tried the different jumper settings with no success.
 
arj said:
The drive is not detected in BIOS, as I am freshly installing windows. I have tried the different jumper settings with no success.
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After changing Jumper settings in SATA 2, make sure that you have setted both the drives accordingly in your BIOS. I mean you have to set the Windows drive on 1 and another sata on 2...It will be done in you configure boot devices...
But check your Mobo's specification first if it supports SATA 2 before doing anything with the jumpers..
 
You might want to make sure the SATA controller is enabled in BIOS, if you haven't already.
 
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