I have a new Asus PK5-e Wifi motherboard and parts. With no drives hooked up, I first went into BIOS and had no problems. Then I hooked up a IDE DVD rom and it powerd up but wasn't recognized. Booting from a CD won't work either. So thinking there was a problem with the CD drive, I disconnected it and tried an IDE Hard Drive. It was spinning, but it also could not be found. Thinking it was the cable, I changed it to the ASUS IDE cable in my box and nothing.
Next I disconnected all IDE devices and decided to try a SATA Hard drive. I hooked it up, started the system and it finds nothing. BIOS says it sees nothing when I go into it. I've built lots of systems before, but I can't think of what could be wrong. Unless there is some setting wrong in BIOS, I'm starting to think the motherboard is defective. Does it sound like it's defective, or did I miss something important? From what I understand, the BIOS should be configured to automatically just find new drives. Does this sound abnormal or am I missing something?
System: Asus pk5-e bios v0806 board v2.58 , tuniq tower, Q6600 G0 at stock 2.4ghz, ocz 2x2048 pc6400 (checks out fine), 8000GT card. -- Drives tested: Western Digital 500GB IDE and 500GB SATA, and Sony DRU-840A IDE DVD burner.
edit: Here are 3 Screen shots from the Asus BIOS, to show what I see -
MAIN BIOS page:
http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/2507/56874838gr8.jpg
After selecting SATA1:
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/8869/34786263so8.jpg
After selecting SATA Configuration:
http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/4130/15104121vn0.jpg
However, it may be going the wrong path since these drives should be automatically detected. At least I thought so.
Next I disconnected all IDE devices and decided to try a SATA Hard drive. I hooked it up, started the system and it finds nothing. BIOS says it sees nothing when I go into it. I've built lots of systems before, but I can't think of what could be wrong. Unless there is some setting wrong in BIOS, I'm starting to think the motherboard is defective. Does it sound like it's defective, or did I miss something important? From what I understand, the BIOS should be configured to automatically just find new drives. Does this sound abnormal or am I missing something?
System: Asus pk5-e bios v0806 board v2.58 , tuniq tower, Q6600 G0 at stock 2.4ghz, ocz 2x2048 pc6400 (checks out fine), 8000GT card. -- Drives tested: Western Digital 500GB IDE and 500GB SATA, and Sony DRU-840A IDE DVD burner.
edit: Here are 3 Screen shots from the Asus BIOS, to show what I see -
MAIN BIOS page:
http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/2507/56874838gr8.jpg
After selecting SATA1:
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/8869/34786263so8.jpg
After selecting SATA Configuration:
http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/4130/15104121vn0.jpg
However, it may be going the wrong path since these drives should be automatically detected. At least I thought so.