I have a MSI NS-7142 and it only recognizes a SATA hard drive and not a
SATA 2 hard drive due to the BIOS. How do I upgrade the BIOS so that it
will recognize my SATA 2 hard drive? It is a 500GB.
I think, one possible way is to manually force sata 2 (there is no such thing as sata 2) to sata 1 by using a jumper for the hard drive. For exact details, please consult the sticker on the hdd or contact the hdd manufacturer for firmware updates.
And please report back, especially if it's a success. (Damn, the VT8237)
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The designers of SATA aimed for backward and forward compatibility with future revisions of the SATA standard.[citation needed]
To prevent interoperability problems that could occur when next
generation SATA drives are installed on motherboards with legacy
standard SATA 1.5 Gbit/s motherboard host controllers, many
manufacturers have made it easy to switch those newer drives to the
previous standard's mode. For example, Seagate/Maxtor has added a
user-accessible jumper-switch, known as the Force 150, to enable the
drive to be switched between 1.5 Gbit/s and 3 Gbit/s operation. Western
Digital uses a jumper setting called OPT1 Enabled to force 1.5 Gbit/s
data transfer speed (OPT1 is enabled by putting the jumper on pins 5
& 6). Samsung drives can be switched to 1.5 Gbit/s mode using
software that may be downloaded from the manufacturer's website.
Upgrading a Samsung drive in this manner requires the temporary use of a
SATA-2 (SATA 3.0 Gbit/s) controller while programming the drive.
I enabled SATA support on my BioStar M7VIZ-SATA MOBO (it is km400 and 8237r, like yours) by first installing the VIA SATA RAID drivers. At this point, Windows recognized the device controller but not the 120GB drive. The problem was that the system doesn't support "newer" SATA drives, so I installed a jumper on the disk drive to set it to "150" mode... SATA version 1 compatibility. After that, Windows immediately recognized the drive and mounted the filesystem.
I think it was a Western Digital drive. Other manufacturers have a different name for the same jumper. Also, I read that one type (Samsung?) can only be set to the old SATA standard by getting the drive running in a SATA 2 environment, then using a utility program to adjust the drive's microcode setting.
Hello,
You need to right click on to my computer>Manage>choose disk management, you should format the new SATA HDD there.
If that will work for you that is good but if not, i thing you should updated the BIOS and you have to make sure that you get that update to MSI website. if you are not familiar w/ that asked some one who know how to flash BIOS. it is risky if you are not familiar doing BIOS update!!!
No jumpers... do need to check that it is Turned On in the BIOS. Really by default it should be on. Sometimes the SATA shares a port with the current PATA. You may not be able to use both. When you are in the BIOS you can see what drives it sees... if it is not there... try just the SATA one... if it detects then you problem is solved... well not really, you need both.
Situation 2... if it sees both in the BIOS, then you will need to FDisk the Drive and Format it. Windows will not recconize the Drive until you do those utilities. Location to do so: Control Panel | Administration Tools | Disk Manager | you should see the new drive... CAUTION: don't mess around here. Only make changes to the new drive.
Situation 3... you can buy a add-on card to add SATA Ports. You MB uses 1.5 mps speed the add-on will be 3.0... faster... plus you could add on while using your PATA Drive.
1. DOS disk doesn't recognize SATA, that's the truth
2. You're going to have a problem if you install OS in your computer (solution: do not select SATA in HDD type but rather IDE)
3. For your SATA HDD to become primary (boot first) try to select your SATA HDD as devic first to boot..
I had the similar problem with the K8MM-V Motherboard. I has been using a PATA HDD. I need to intall a 250Gig Seagate SATA HDD. Despit all the Bios Configs the PC Could not detec the HDD. Untill i Put a Jumper on the HDD limiting the SATA HDD to 1.5gig of OS instead of 3gig. Look at the Label of your HDD
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