Comments on: Install SATA hdd on ASUS A8V Deluxe Motherboard

By: The Cooler Master

The Cooler Master — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:24:09 +0000

I am in the market for a new Motherboard but anything with an Nvidia 790i chipset sets you back well over £250.

I place more importance on motherboards than other components when building systems. I’m just having a job trying to justify £250.

What do you think would be the best performance/pound value motherboard in the ASUS range?

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By: TOM

TOM — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:53:54 +0000

Hi there,

I am another who is very confused, I have XP working fine off the primary hard drive (SATA1) and I want to add another drive or two just for storage.

I do not need or want any kind of RAID, i just want the computer to recognise the new disks!

When I add a new drive to SATA 2 the system ‘cannot find windows’ and when i add it to either of the SATA ports on ’southbridge’ then windows will boot but ‘disk management’ doesn’t detect the new drive at all!?!?!

cheers guys

TOM

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:22:30 +0000

I have the SATA ports working using the latest VIA drivers but whenever I connect a hard drive to the IDE connectors It will not boot. the drive is recognized in the BIOS and I can boot from a cd but not from a hard drive. Are my IDE controllers worthless or is their some driver or boot instructions I can load? The mobo is an A8V Deluxe

By: hermes

hermes — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:25:39 +0000

Sorry to but in here but not sure where to make a new post.
I seem to have lost two onboard Sata discs, my PC crashed and when it came back I had lost both of them.

The only one that was still ok was my drive C which is fine but the other two seemed to have dropped off cpmpletely.

I thought the hard discs had packed up but after testing with a usb gadget I know they are still ok when plugged into an outside usb socket.

I then tried a PCI Sata card which I can’t get the hardware profile to see (it has a ?)

I have two questions really, how do I get th Mobo to see the card and what have a I messed with the Sata hard disc sockets?

Asus A8v mobo with

By: peelaa

peelaa — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:04:02 +0000

Hi thanx for this guide dont no how long it would have took me to figure this out without it. Anyway I am having the same problem as Eugene, I can install windows x64 but it just wont boot. I have no problem booting x86 (32 bit) windows but whenever i try booting windows 64 my pc just keep restarting before it gets into windows. Did you manage to fix this problem Eugene?

By: Mick

Mick — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:12:14 +0000

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Problem
The os is set up fine,on maxtor 300gb sata2
System occasionally cant find os
On investigation mobo has reverted to the wd hdd (ide)
as primary boot device.
Usually it requires reselecting 1st drive to maxtor and saving changes.

What is making the bios do this??? it may be ok for weeks and then it decides to select the ide drive as 1st drive

By: kbk

kbk — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:07:20 +0000

Thanks so much for this help, it had taken me 2 days of trying to get my A8V-UA board to recognise the SATA hard drive, the most frustrating thign was that neither the promise or fasttrak drivers that came with the ASUS mobo on the support cd worked!

But thanks to this tutorial im now finally underway with installing winxpsp2 after 2 days of frustrtion !

thanks so much :D

By: Eugene

Eugene — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 21:11:21 +0000

Guys I really need your help. I have an ASUS A8V Deluxe board and trying to setup two 74Gig raptors as Raid 0 using VIA chip. I am able to Raid them and install Winodws x64 on them, however as soon as Windows x64 restarts after finishing installation, my computer keeps restarting. I tried flashing BIOS to the latest revision, tried the 64Bit version of VIA controller drivers, same problem. I tried unpluging any other hardware leaving only the basic hardware components, same problem. I tried 3 different sticks of RAM in different sockets, same problem. I am going insane. Can my mb be bad? The strange thing is that I have another regular SATA drive which had windows 32Bit installation on it. I tried to connect it, and I was able to boot in to windows. Please help. Thank you for the awsome article! :)

By: Alistair

Alistair — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 01:41:45 +0000

Thank you for your excellent information. Without it I would have taken a sledgehammer to my motherboard. Thanks again!