AMIBIOS and SATA

[shep6602]

Hey everyone, I am currently building my first computer, which was going pretty smoothly until now. I have a K8N-E deluxe motherboard, which has AMIBIOS on it, and a Western Digital 250 GB SATA hard drive. My problem is getting my bios to recognize my hard drive. Bios recognized both my DVD-RW drive and my floppy, but not the SATA. I know from reading in other places that I am suppose to change a couple of options in BIOS to make the computer recognize the hard drive, but the examples I have read all concerned phoenix bios, which from what I can see in the examples is pretty different from ami. I would appreciate any help that yall could give me. Thanks

[odannyboy000]

its a new harddrive right? maybe you could install it, and run your OS. If you do that, you can have an option to formatt. that might work

[capequahog]

is there a sata/ide option that needs to be enabled int he bios? one has to start from square one on some of these questions, the sata/ide option should be pretty straightforwafd, if you get into raid it gets a little more complicated,also check the Wst Dig support site for sata install

[saphalline]

Check the mobo manual. Unless it was really really poorly written, the answer is most likely in there.