Abit Motherboard IS7 Motherboard

[Steve MITCHAM]

Hi,

I have just purchased the below motherboad but I am having problems getting the motherboard bios to identify the hard drive. Any ideas? I've altered the SATA to show IDE 1 and 2, but unfortunately it shows both CD-RW but not the hard drive. Any suggestions to rectify this problem would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Mitch

IS7-G
P4 2.6GHz

2x Maxtor SATA 120GB 7200rpm 8MB Cache DM9+ in RAID 0 mode

 

[TomG]

flash the bios up to 1.4 if you have not already. then set the SATA to enhanced mode and it will allow the PATA IDE channels as well as the SATA channels to function.

 

[Steve MITCHAM]

Hi Tom,

Sorry to be a pain, I've tried to flash the bios but it appears to be taking ages. The message box just appears to be flashing : 'Please wait' It's been like that for about 10 minutes. Is that normal?

I've presently gt two devices on IDE 2 which show up in the bios and unforunately the hard drive still isn't showing up on the system. Can you help?

Thanks in advance.

Mitch

"TomG" wrote:

flash the bios up to 1.4 if you have not already. then set the SATA to enhanced mode and it will allow the PATA IDE channels as well as the SATA channels to function.

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[Paul Landregan]

flashing should take about 30-40 seconds

"Steve MITCHAM" wrote:

Hi Tom,

Sorry to be a pain, I've tried to flash the bios but it appears to be taking ages. The message box just appears to be flashing : 'Please wait' It's been like that for about 10 minutes. Is that normal?

I've presently gt two devices on IDE 2 which show up in the bios and unforunately the hard drive still isn't showing up on the system. Can you help?

Thanks in advance.

Mitch

"TomG" wrote:

... SATA channels to function.

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... altered the
SATA to show IDE 1 and 2, but unfortunately it shows both CD-RW but not the
hard drive. Any suggestions to rectify this problem would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Mitch

IS7-G
P4 2.6GHz
2x Maxtor SATA 120GB 7200rpm 8MB Cache DM9+ in RAID 0 mode

...

 

[Steve MITCHAM]

Tom,
How do you set the SATA to enhanced? I can't find it in the manual.

"TomG" wrote:

flash the bios up to 1.4 if you have not already. then set the SATA to enhanced mode and it will allow the PATA IDE channels as well as the SATA channels to function.

--

Thomas Geery
Network+ certified

ftp://geerynet.d2g.com
ftp://68.98.180.8 Abit Mirror <----- Cable modem IP This IP is dynamic so it *could* change!... ...

 

[TomG]

no, it is not normal. a bios flash barely takes a minute...

 

[TomG]

that is because the manuals reflect what was in the early bios sets. for the IC7 board, they came out with a new soft-copy manual that you can download but I have not seen the same for the IS7. then again, I may be confusing the IC7 bios settings with the IS7... in the manual, the SATA controller would be set to mode 7 which would make SATA 1 = ide 3 and SATA 2 = ide 4 and the onchip ide controller would be ide 1 & 2. see page 3-13 and apologies if I had confused the IC7 bios settings with the IS7.