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I've recently bought several components (which I'll list below) and am having a bit of trouble connecting the HDD and configuring the BIOS to recognise it. I'm new to building computers, so please forgive my 'newbieness'.
The main components are:
M/B 865 Neo-2 FIS2R 800FSB
Processor P4 2.6 800 FSB
HDD Seagate 120Gb SATA 8Mb cache
Memory Corsair 256Mb XMS3200 x 2
Video MSI Ti4200 8x AGP
I have several questions, and I hope you're patient enough to read this and consider a reply.
1. There are 4 SATA connectors on the M/B. I am presuming that I should connect this HDD to SATA 1, but when I do, I cannot get the BIOS to detect it nor can I see the 2 cdrom drives I have on the secondary IDE channel. Furthermore, I get a "Fast Trak" error message telling me the BIOS was not saved. When I connect the HDD to SATA 3, then it is recognised, I get no error messages and I can access both cdroms, but I'm not convinced this is the optimal setup for my system.
2. How should I be setting up the BIOS with respect to SATA / PATA and RAID, if this SATA HDD is the only HDD in the system and the other 2 drives are IDE CDROM's? I want the HDD to be the boot drive (of course).
My preference is to set the HDD up to SATA 1 and be able to boot Win XP from it, without FastTrak errors and without "losing" access to the CDROM drives.
I hope this question made sense to someone and that someone's answer will make sense to me!!
Cheers
Darryl

Did you switched you operating mode in NATIVE mode?
I had the same problem and native mode solved it.
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