MS-7046 with latest BIOS destroys SATA-Harddisks!

Hello there,
my mainboards returns "MEDIONPC" as manufacturer, "MS-7046" as modell... BIOS is by Phoenix Technologies, V6.
I know, Medion is responsable for support, but they said they'd need 3 weeks for repairs... o0
Harddisk is by Western Digital.
Though I have the newest BIOS, my harddisks fails after time. When exchanging them, the exchanged will fail after time and so on...
When failing, the BIOS displays: 571GB, PIO 0, ""bzbzbzbzbzbzbzbzbzbzbz...".
I really don't know how to fix this.
I don't think the harddrive gets too hot, its maximum temperature gets 40°C.
The problem is being described here:
http://club.aopen.com.tw/forum/viewmessage.asp?forumID=49&MessageID=59311
And here:
http://www.computerhilfen.de/hilfen-4-71119-0.html
Please help...

Hi!
Have a look at the connector you used. If you have the full K8T Neo, you have two SATA controllers. One VIA and one Promise. You then have 4 SATA ports on the board. you need to use the ones closest to your RAM, so, the upper ones.
Did you buy a SATA or SATA-II disk? In case it's SATA-II, check the SATA/SATA-II jumper on the drive and set it to SATA-I. Your board does NOT support SATA-II.
when you checked this, please verify in BIOS that you actually did enable the VIA V8237 SATA controller. When you did, boot further untill the POST screen disappears. Now, you see a VIA SATA BIOS screen. It should list your Seagate now.

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