I recently purchased a Samsung HD103SJ F3 1TB, connected it up and attempted to install my new copy of Windows 7 on it.
It is apparently detected by my motherboard (an old Gigabyte GA K8N Pro) as I can see the hard drive's name as the computer starts up. What is weird however, is that after pressing delete to enter setup (and it says "Preparing to Enter Setup"), it never does - it just waits indefinitely at the GigaRAID BIOS screen ("Please wait for RAID configuration" is flashing).
The fact that I can't enter BIOS setup means I can't check or adjust any of the SATA settings and hence attempt to cure the problem.
I gave up and installed Windows on a older drive I knew worked, hoping that I could use the F3 simply as a second disk (not in RAID), but exactly the same thing happens even when it there is a working bootable disk installed.
The SATA chip on my mobo has Hot Plug functionality so I am able to connect it when Windows is up and running, and it works fine...it just won't boot with it.
I suspect it could be something to do with the fact that the F3 is SATA II and my mobo almost definitely isn't, but I'm unsure how to rectify that if that is the case (I tried putting a jumper across a couple of the pins, but that rendered the drive completely undetectable).
Many thanks for any light that can be shed on my problem.
It is apparently detected by my motherboard (an old Gigabyte GA K8N Pro) as I can see the hard drive's name as the computer starts up. What is weird however, is that after pressing delete to enter setup (and it says "Preparing to Enter Setup"), it never does - it just waits indefinitely at the GigaRAID BIOS screen ("Please wait for RAID configuration" is flashing).
The fact that I can't enter BIOS setup means I can't check or adjust any of the SATA settings and hence attempt to cure the problem.
I gave up and installed Windows on a older drive I knew worked, hoping that I could use the F3 simply as a second disk (not in RAID), but exactly the same thing happens even when it there is a working bootable disk installed.
The SATA chip on my mobo has Hot Plug functionality so I am able to connect it when Windows is up and running, and it works fine...it just won't boot with it.
I suspect it could be something to do with the fact that the F3 is SATA II and my mobo almost definitely isn't, but I'm unsure how to rectify that if that is the case (I tried putting a jumper across a couple of the pins, but that rendered the drive completely undetectable).
Many thanks for any light that can be shed on my problem.