Sata Wtf How??????

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I have the Asus A7N8X Deluxe, which is practically the same motherboard, and he does actually indeed want the Sil RAID drivers. I had a floppy disc with both seperate at one point, and it only liked the RAID drivers, which worked perfectly.

so what did you do? install them in windows and install what on floppy?link for my a7n8x-e version would be usefull please...

[BUFF]

Try http://www.siliconimage.com/docs/SWD...2-00W-1361.zip
Seeing as you are installing to a existing OS install on an IDE drive you should be able to manually install a driver by going into Device Manager, clicking on the Controller entry & selecting Update Driver & then pointing it to where you have extracted the file.
or you can do it from a floppy.

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so i dont need to install anything in bootup via floppy now?as i have floppy drive ready
ok just so i dont keep asking can you post a quick guide of exact steps including like plugging in etc lol so i dont miss anything stupid.i apprieciate this grately.cheers people

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still NOT working...
so where would i enable it in the bios as its enabled on the mobo... and where would it detect it in the bios?

EDIT: it isn't showing up even if i try a reinstall and install drivers using F6... going to take it to a shop tomorrow to get them to test it as i think its a duff drive and i wasted like 5hrs

EDIT2: Just thought is it because either i have a 350w power supply with loadsa stuff attached?or because its 320gb and not under 137gb? but i have a 160gb ide that runs fine?WTF! is going on
also i am now running latest bios on a7n8x-e deluxe and still no joy.if there IS a sata/raid enabled/disabled option in the BIOS could someone tell me where as i cannot see one only one i know of is on the mobo itself

[BUFF]

You may have to force SATA 150 compatability with that WD drive if it's a SATA 3.0Gb - should be a jumper setting.

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and how would i do that:S it says that the jumpers are just for factory and no master/slave are needed...

[oralpain]

Umm, did you plug the molex connector and the SATA power connector in at the same time? If so, you very well could have killed the drive.

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LOL@oralpain nah... cheers for suggestion though

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turns out its dead-so rma time

[BlueMagician]

turns out its dead-so rma time

Did the suppliers/shop you took it to confirm this for you? Would hate for it to indeed turn out to be a mobo config/driver issue, and you get stung for a restocking fee...

S.

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dunno they tried it in various sata configs and didnt work yet when they put their drive back in it worked...

so its on OcUk for a rma...