I wanted a single, large drive on my PC and purchased a 1TB SATA drive to replace my existing 2 160GB IDE drives. I have four SATA connections on the motherboard and plugged the SATA drive into one of them (jumpered to 1.5 Gb/s) while leaving my master IDE drive still connected. The bios recognized the drive and, after I initialized the drive, I was able to see it in Windows. I unplugged both IDE drives and rebooted, installing Windows 8 on the SATA drive in the process. Everything worked fine through this point.
That said, I have since discovered that when I perform certain activities, such as when I attempt to view my network connections or try to access an external USB hard drive, the system crashes (white screen or white screen with pinstripes). I'm not sure if this is indicative of a conflict of some sort or a bios issue. I've dabbled in the bios and device manager but nothing leaps out at me as obvious.
That said, I have since discovered that when I perform certain activities, such as when I attempt to view my network connections or try to access an external USB hard drive, the system crashes (white screen or white screen with pinstripes). I'm not sure if this is indicative of a conflict of some sort or a bios issue. I've dabbled in the bios and device manager but nothing leaps out at me as obvious.