SATA HDD is not detceted properly

Hi,
Thanks for the details. I have used K8V-MX Asus motherboard and found it very reliable with quite reasonable performance. It definately supports 500 GB Sata drive and there must not be any issues after increasing just the storage. However, Operating System upgrade may result in sluggish performance. Drivers dont seem to be an issue to me either.
I suggest to review a few points detailed as under: -
- K8V-MX Asus Supports RAID, so, check for any RAID Drivers/ settings. (You dont have to use RAID for two Hard Drives of different make, capacity and speed). Try using one disk at a time having same Operating System (e.g. Windows XP) and compare the performance.
- Infact SATA Drives have better data transfer rate than IDE, which results in enhanced performance.
- Some Programs (that you may not be using with 80GB drive) Like antivirus may result in decreased performance.
- Please Review you Operating System environment and software installed. Make sure that the new drive & Operating System are free of any virus, which results in CPU Utilization upto 100%.
- Also, motherboard supports Max 2GB RAM, so you may consider adding more RAM.

Let me know if any further clarification/ assistance is required.
Hope it helps! Good Luck!
CreativeTECH

Your model KV8-MX motherboard does not have a SATA controller.
To install a 1Tb SATA hard drive you need to install a PCI SATA controller and then connect the SATA hard drive to this controller board.

check the mfg user manual for the motherboard for the card and other hardwares that can be attached

This motherboard does support SATA. Check out the specs on the ASUS website:)

http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=14&l3=225&model=754&modelmenu=1

Yep ...the K8V-MX board has 2 SATA ports ....so no problems there :-)

Here's a link to the full specs:

http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=14&l3=225&model=754&modelmenu=1

yes the mother board supports SATA However if you connect large Disks to the SATA connectors they are recognized correctly with full size. So leave your 500g and less HDs on the IDE and the big ones on the SATA. you can check this link for the manual for more information ftp://ftp.chiligreen.com/Desktop/Manuals/manual_a_k8v-mx.pdf hope this helps .thanks and Godbless pls appreciate by rating as fixyaa

http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?modelname=K8V-MX&SLanguage=en-us

then go to RAID select 4 th one down in RAID
2.0.950.430 XP raid driver

enter the bios and disable raid function, there is no specific SATA drivers unless you work with xp SP1.
In the following link you can read the user's manual : http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/sock754/K8V-MX/E2335_K8V-MX_h.pdf

check for the website of your HDD vendor.eg-www.seagate.com for seagate hdd.
make sure you format using fat32 file system.

there are 4 different k8v motherboard types, you didnt say which variant?

 

but you shouldnt need any 3rd party drivers, either the one built into the cmos, or the ones that are on the cd rom that comes with the motherboard should work fine with win2003.

they have always been fine on my installs, just ignore the question on the initial setup, its only asking incase you need to use one, you dont have to.