SATA HD problem with Bios

[Argy]

Hi,

Hope someone can kindly help with this?
Bought a new computer. All fine. Then I get a message asking me to update my bios. Aha I thought, better make a recovery disk of bios (which I did).

Bios upgrade seemed to work but there was a CMOS error. Not to worry I thought. I will reflash from the floppy. Which I did. Now however, my SATA HD is not being recognised at all.
I have loaded in the bios defaults. The Primary IDE is set to Auto but the drive is not found.
I have looked endlessly for a SATA setting but cannot find one in the Bios. I looked on the Maxtor website and found the drive settings but alas the numbers I am asked to enter are too big!

How do I get my Bios to recognise my SATA hard drive. It isn't a broken HD as this was working fine until the BIOS flash.

My HD is a 250Gb Maxtor
My Motherboard is a 865PE-Neo3
and my bios is AMI.

Any help would be really really appreciated.

Thanks

Argy

[Xaar]

1stly, u need 2 ensure u did flash the bios with the correct f/w..
i c MSI have 2 boards that match ur description.. which is it?

865PE-Neo3 - V
865PE-Neo3 - F

[Argy]

Well I think I am now back to the original Flash as I restored from the backup.
It is not 100% clear which model I have! IS there an easy way to tell?

Thanks for your help

Argy

[da_ging]

it should say what the exact board name is between either the first or second pci slots in big white letters and it will say the proper model number (MS-####) between the last pci slots

[Splash]

Also have a shufty in your BIOS for an option along the lines of boot from RAID/SCSI - that's often the part you need to be tinkering with.