Drive or SATA BIOS?

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  1. target563

    target563

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    I have an A8V.
    I just purchased a WD5000AAKS (Western Digital 500Gb SATA2) and when attempting to get the SATA controller to recognize it, I get the following error:
    "HardWare initiate failed, Please check device!!!
    The Bios does not be installed. Press <g> to continue."

    The Chipset is the VT8237 and the bios ver says it's 2.01

    It says this regardless of if I have any other SATA devices connected or not. (both of my other drives appear to be SATA1)

    Also, just to try, I attempted to get the drive to be recognized by a known working SATA/IDE/USB connector which I just tested w/ an IDE device, and the SATA2 does not show up in the storage manager whereas the IDE device did.

    Is this a motherboard, controller bios, or hard drive issue?

    Any help would be very much appreciated.
     
    target563, Aug 29, 2007
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