Hard Drive Detection NOT in BIOS (AMI)

There is no "HDD Auto detect" function in my AMIBIOS on my brand new KTS Ultra2 VIA KT333. Consequently, I am not able to detect my new hard drive (Maxtor Fireball 40G). What do I do???? I need help quick!!!!

i had problems like that exactly.
i reseated the ide cable and wiggled the molex connector to the hdd and swiched them also it finally booted and havent had a problem since. also in the days of gateway tech support i had thousands of calls on fireball hdds. :D

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Ok just as an update thus far. i still can't get it to read the hd after i install from the recovery discs...which is odd of course.
It does read the drive before i install anything to it though.
OK time to add something really really weird though, i an attempt to figure this out, i installed the 500G drive and put ubuntu on it just to see if the problem was w/ the HD having a failure or not.
ubuntu installed just fine, and i am typing this off the installed ubuntu OS.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379
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How many months?
The error message might or might not be true. It is worth your time to go ahead and back up all of your data to an external hard disk
Boot into Windows and go to Device manager look at the disk drive device click on the + to expand the category and post the model number (the complete alphanumeric string next to the icon) here in your thread. There is a possibility that your hard drive requires a firmware update. I will do a bit of research to see if that is indeed the issue.
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