Looks like the bios automaticly reads what drives are connected and where. I
put the cable from the C: drive to the different SATA ports and bios showed
the drives on the port connected. Changing from Raid to IDE had no effect.
Looks like I have a bad new drive or cable. I saw a jumper on the mother
bd. close to the cable connectors but have no documentation so I left it
alone.

W.
"Gnack Nol" wrote in message
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:00:45 -0500, SXMWendell wrote:

I am trying to add a 2nd hard drive to this computer. I have installed
the
drive but the BIOS doesn't recognise it. any suggestions. ( I tried the
add hardware in Windows too)

TIA

W.
I can't say I'm familar with that machine.

Here a few SATA controller basics to look at.

Be shure it is not set up as a raid controller but rather as Ide or
compatable.

check your boot sequence settings because that sata port may be set to be
ignored.

check each sata port's settings they usually are independent of each other
so one setting isn't for all except raid which may include two or more
ports.

Try booting with just the new drive connected to the working port and
above all check and re-seat all drive cables in case one may not be fully
inserted into the socket.

I hope this may help