Hi there i have a hp motherboard that is not recognizing anything to do with drives it is a sata setup and have changed the cables with no change in recognition do you know whats wrong with this board m2ny8-la pegathon

Hi,

According to your problem first make sure that the hard drive is OK and working fine. You can attach with another PC to be sure that the drive is OK. If the hard drive is working properly then change the SATA cables (data and power). Check that you have connected all the cables properly with motherboard, SMPS and hard drive. Make sure that the hard drive is motherboard supported. If it doesn't solve your problem then change the bios settings. Make SATA enabled in bios. Check the SATA mode in bios. Proper bios settings can make your drive working if the drive is OK. For proper bios settings you can take help from motherboard manual.

Hi,
I have had problems like this many times with some of my IBM machines. What i find most often the reason the bios will not recognize them is because the hard drive has gone bad.
Troubleshooting 1. Unplug power cable from computer before doing anything inside of the computer. Unplug sata cable from motherboard and hard drive. Unplug power cable from hard drive.
Plug the sata cable back into the motherboard and into the hard drive. Plug the power cable back into the hard drive. Plug the power cable back into the computer.
Boot computer and enter bios(by pressing F8, Enter, Del ect..) Does the hard drive show in there now?
2. If you have another hard drive.
Unplug power cable from computer before doing anything inside of the computer. Unplug sata cable from hard drive. Unplug power cable from hard drive.
Plug the sata cable into the second hard drive. Plug the power cable into the second hard drive. Plug the power cable back into the computer.
Boot up the computer and enter the bios. Does this hard drive show in the bios? If so then i would say that your original hard drive has gone bad.

was this a sata or IDE drive (sata has a small cable while IDE has wide cable connector going to the motherboard of your computer) try first to change the cable. check also if the unit is detected in the cmos setup of your motherboard(usually when you press delete during power up you can go to the cmos setup of your computer) check the standard cmos setup and see if the DVD is detected). if all of this fails then i think you need to replace the drive.

How were the partitions created on the SATA? Are they RAID configured from the other system? Does the new motherboard have the same support for your HD as the other system? Check the setup in the BIOS screen on both systems to make them identical as much as you can. According to Tom's Hardware: "In the SATA port configuration place you have up to four "mode" choices: IDE (or PATA) Emulation, native SATA, AHCI, or RAID." Check this section. [email protected]

Change ide or sata cable.
Also change power cable of smps to harddisk.
Make sure your harddisk set as master with jumper settings.
Read jumper settings on harddisk then set harddisk as master.
Then check in bios.
Change ide or sata ports on motherbord then check.

you need to get into system setup from a reboot or restart. youll need to find out what f key to push then once in youll need to change the cd/dvdrom from ide to sata f 10 to save and exit

Hi,
Plug the drive in, restart your machine, as it starts up enter the BIOS and set the bios to defaults, hit F10 save the changes and exit the BIOS.
The computer will restart and the SATA drive should now be recognized by the system.

Good luck

I HAVE UPLOADED THE MANUAL HERE, IF YOU DON'T WANT TO WAIT THEN GET INTO YOUR BIOS BY DOING A HARD BOOT AND HITTING THE DELETE BUTTON ON START-UP.IF THE MOTHERBOARD SUPPORTS SATA , TO WHICH I FOUND NO CONFIRMATION , YOU CAN CHANGE IT BY GOING INTO THE ADVANCED SETUP PAGE AND CHANGE THE FIRST BOOT DEVICE TO SATA RATHER THAN IDE. YOU WILL ALSO WANT TO CHECK THE PCI SETTINGS AS WELL FOR YOUR CONTRLOLLER CARD ....GOOD LUCK

Start by simplifying the configuration. Disconnect the second IDE cable from the motherboard and disconnect the power to the DVD drive. Disconnect the SATA device. On the #1 IDE cable, connect the master drive to the connection on the end of the cable. Connect the Slave drive to the middle connection on the cable. Start the computer and press the key indicated to enter setup. Verify that drives are properly indentified as master and slave. If they are, shutdown the computer. Now add the IDE DVD drive to the end connection on IDE cable #2. It should be set as a Master drive. Start the PC again and go into setupand verify that the DVD is IDE #2 Master. Shut down the PC. Add the SATA device and start eh PC again. Go into Setup to verify that all of the drives are properly identifed. Restart the computer and let it boot into Windows. Open Windows Explorer to view the drive settings. If the drives are all present, but the letters are not what you want, click on START and then right click on MY COMPUTER and then left click on MANAGE. Under Storage click on DISK MANAGEMEN. The drives will all be displayed with their assisgned letters. If you need to change a drive letter, right click on the drive you want to change and select 'Change drive letter . . .'. Change it to a hight letter in the alphabet, then change the dive you want in the original postion to the now vacant letter. Finally change the original drive to the first available letter. Example: C:=IDE M1 D: E:=IDE S1 Change D: to H: then E: to D: and finally H: to E: they drives would then be: C:=IDE M1 D:=IDE S1 E:=IDE M2(DVD). Restart the PC and the drive should come up as you want them to be labled.

Good luck and please let me know how it works ouot for you.

So the HD is not recognized at all or do you see it in the BIOS? If you don't see it at all then obvious things to check are the power cable, and the IDE or SATA cable. If it's an IDE drive it's not too difficult to bend a pin while attaching the connector. I would check that. I'm guessing you did not change any jumpers on the drive. Last thing I can think of is to be sure the BIOS settings are correct depending on if it's an IDE or SATA drive.