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WD Raptor NOT DETECTED in BIOS =(

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Okay well, another day, another bump in the road.

I decided to finish putting my gaming rig together tonight, and during the initial boot up, my hard drive was NOT detected. I tried again after "loading optimal settings", exiting, and saving, but again when I looked in the BIOS after restarting, the SATA peripherals were showing as none. Besides my SATA Raptor, I have a 16x NEC DVD RW which showed up with no problem (IDE).

I've tried using legacy power connectors (4 holes) as well as SATA power connectors (never both at the same time), and both ways it still goes as "undetected". This is a brand new factory sealed hard drive mind you.

I have the DFI NF4 SLI-DR board. Do I need to set up anything specific in the BIOS or adjust any motherboard/hard drive jumpers (although WD says jumpers are not necessary in SATA drives), or maybe I just got a defective Raptor?

As always, any info/help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks. :)
 
I've heard some weird things with BIOS and SATA drives. I believe there is an nvidia SATA controller (1 & 2) and a SIS controller (3 & 4)? I know the -DR has what, 8 SATA ports? Try the drive on the first or third slot, whichever one you currently don't have it on. I also think you may have an option to turn each controller ON/OFF in the BIOS settings, but I don't have this board so I really can't be 100% certain on this!

You should also consider unplugging ALL IDE devices until you get the BIOS to see your drive. When you want to install your OS and all that you can re-plug them in.

Hope this helps!
 
Hmmm... I don't have a DFI board. But on my system nothing shows up about the drive in the bios because it does not list SATA drives, only IDE. I'm also using a SATA card. I just put in the windows disk and had a floppy made with the right drivers. I then setup the bios to boot up with the CD-rom first and at some point I hit F6 to install the normal, not raid version of drivers, even though it's a single drive and not a raid. It should see the listed driver and then you load those and the rest is installs and reboots after that. You might need to even turn on SCSI options in the bios. I know it's not a SCSI, but SATA is all kinds of wierd.

Having to install in a raid mode using a non raid driver while on a floppy and not cd-rom and while running as a SCSI in windows is just some dumb rigged BS if you ask me.
 
I now have in my hands 2 replacement drives, and I'm heading right into a Raid 0 config. I'm sure I'll have some sort of problem, lol. Be on the lookout for future help threads. :(
 
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