Asus Bios Sata Mode Selection

Shit... the jumper had eliminated the Hardware Failed to initialize message but it is still not visible in both Windows and BIOS either.
Perhaps on the Windows itself, some drivers had to be installed but usually drivers are meant for detectable hardwares, not undetectable.
Comparing that board which uses the VT82x6 chipset with my VIA KT880, it seems besides setting it as master, there are no other way to make use of SATA as slave.
Any pro out there can pin point this?
Added on December 8, 2007, 9:14 pmFound an untried suggestion here from viaarena forum where I obtain the SATA RAID driver for the VT8237 Southbridge.
It seems like after the jumper setting trick, there's a need to install the SATA II hdd from add new hardware with the driver downloaded either from ASUS or VIA website, i suggest VIA for the latest version of Driver.
Going to try it tonight and post the outcome maybe by tomorrow. Hope that can add it as SLAVE drive
Added on December 11, 2007, 1:30 amAll right, after my successful attempt in installing the driver into the PC via slip-streamed Win XP, I was able to set the SATA II HDD as slave or as master.
The slave way is the jumper trick, then a restart and installation of the VRAID driver so that the SATA II HDD can be detected. Install it via the Add New Hardware method and get ready with the file from viaarena.
The master way would requires the jumper trick, restart and slipstreaming the driver into the Win XP so that floppyless system could benefit from it. If you are using nLite for slip-streaming, make sure driver is integrated from the drvdsk folder where you'll be prompted to use text-mode instead of the inf file. Remember, the chipset is VT8237 and strangely, it'll appears that the driver is meant for Win2003 Server instead of Win XP but it still works so nvm. In face, I used NT5. Not NT4.
Then within the BIOS, just go all the way to set the VIA RAID HDD as the 1st HDD, and let the original PATA be selected as number 2, if u want to boot the PC from the SATA drive. If only you installed OS onto it. The strange thing is, it never allowed Bootloader function for choosing of OS of diff tech from 2 diff HDD, only one will be chosen as primary and only usable after a successful bootup.
This post has been edited by Kagaya: Dec 11 2007, 01:30 AM

Asus Bios Sata Mode Selection

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