I have sata hdd and the bios is not recognising it. The hdd works as I have plugged it into a working pc and it appears. I have formatted in NTFS and run scandisk, no errors. is there any specific settings I need to change for this to work in the bios?
I connected the hdd to gsata and it works. however the dvdrive is not recognised on gsata. i have 2 sata3 ports and 4 sata2 ports.
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i think i have tried this already. i will try disableing hotplug again tonight. restore defaults disables the hotplug?
also my motherboard is ver1.0. how would i update the bios? i tried downlading the latest bios. extract it to usb. once i was in the bios i tried the qflash and then i don't see any option to select from usb drive.
I have updated the bios to F18i, still no difference. tried AHCI hot plug disabled and IDE, th eonly port that works is gsata0.
I have also tried taking the CMOS battery out. made no difference.