250 GB HD

Recommended by Wim's BIOS...

my seagate 250gb hd barracuda 7200.8 is not being recognized up by my msi 865g neo2-p motherboard. may someone please help me? thanx.

have you inspected your cables? What is your bios id string? (use this to find it http://www.unicore.com/biosagent/index.cfm).

[Denniss]

Your Board and Bios should be well recent enough to detect big capacity HDD.
As suggested before check your cables and give us some more infos:
PATA or SATA ? Detected by Bios bot not visible in OS device manager ?

i finally had time to do the bios thingy...i dorm so i normally use my laptop and my home computer is the one that needs the help. here is the info i got

Program: eSupport.com BIOS Agent Version 3.52
BIOS Date: 09/29/04
BIOS Type: American Megatrends
BIOS ID: 63-3A01-001169-00101111-040201-I865G-1I865XXX
OEM Sign-On: A6728IMS V3.A 092904
Chipset: Intel 2570 rev 2
Superio: Unknown
OS: WinXP SP2
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Processor 3200 Mhz MAX: 4000 Mhz
BIOS ROM In Socket: Yes
BIOS ROM Size: 512K
Memory Installed: 1024 MB
Memory Maximum: 4096 MB
Memory Slot 01: 256 MB
Memory Slot 02: 256 MB
Memory Slot 03: 512 MB
Memory Slot 04: 0 MB

eSupport.com, Inc.
1-800-800-BIOS (2467)
www.esupport.com


the cables look fine to me. it's a SATA hd and it should work. i didn't see it being detected when i looked in the bios menus before startup so i really don't know what's going on.

[KURIAKI]

Are you checked the BIOS settings?
Go to Integrated Peripherals, On-chip IDE Configuration
ATA Configuration: P-ATA + S-ATA
S-ATA Keep Enabled: Yes
P-ATA Keep Enabled: Yes

oh dudes! thanks for that help! i thought i checked in there to see if it was set. hmm...must've never seen that setting before in my bios. that's probably why i missed it. anyway, thanks so much for the help! much appreciated! when i learn a lot more i'll try to come back and help others! or if i have more problems i'll post it! haha.

[KURIAKI]

You're welcome.