Hi O wise ones; I don't visit this particular Forum very often but I hope you won't hold that against me.
I have an ECS KV2 Lite mobo currently running one SATA master HDD with a couple of older legacy EIDE drives as storage slaves. One is failing so yesterday, I have a browse & order a Samsung HD 103SJ Spinpoint F3 1TB HDD on free delivery with a couple of other bits. I’m a long time regular & not sure if that makes any difference but, as usual, the brilliant Ebuyer service delivered it early the very next afternoon. Great; I’ll get this going on format before dinner; so I open case, connect up, hit the power on button & ----- nothing; it won’t go beyond the pretty “KV2 Lite” graphic screen. Tried other/new cables, swapping cable connections around & even dissing my current master SATA to see if it would go to BIOS on its’ own but no matter what I do, it wont go beyond the initial graphic screen; if I disconnect the new drive, it all boots as normal.
The very brief Samsung instructions note that "in rare cases older 1.5MB/s mobo interfaces may be unable to establish connection with 3MB/s drives" & advice to switch the drive to 1.5MB/s using Samsung software available on their website but a quick site visit was pretty fruitless. I can’t see how any software will work if I cant even get to BIOS with the drive connected, unless some sort of BIOS flash is involved!
I’m assuming there is not a fault with the drive? Is my now admittedly "little long in the tooth", 1.5MB/s mobo capable of recognizing the new 3MB/s drive or am I also looking at a Mobo upgrade to get the drive to work? Not a novice but I haven’t had as much experience with SATA problems as I would like so not sure if I’m missing a trick or even the bleedin obvious!
Any help very gratefully received.
I have an ECS KV2 Lite mobo currently running one SATA master HDD with a couple of older legacy EIDE drives as storage slaves. One is failing so yesterday, I have a browse & order a Samsung HD 103SJ Spinpoint F3 1TB HDD on free delivery with a couple of other bits. I’m a long time regular & not sure if that makes any difference but, as usual, the brilliant Ebuyer service delivered it early the very next afternoon. Great; I’ll get this going on format before dinner; so I open case, connect up, hit the power on button & ----- nothing; it won’t go beyond the pretty “KV2 Lite” graphic screen. Tried other/new cables, swapping cable connections around & even dissing my current master SATA to see if it would go to BIOS on its’ own but no matter what I do, it wont go beyond the initial graphic screen; if I disconnect the new drive, it all boots as normal.
The very brief Samsung instructions note that "in rare cases older 1.5MB/s mobo interfaces may be unable to establish connection with 3MB/s drives" & advice to switch the drive to 1.5MB/s using Samsung software available on their website but a quick site visit was pretty fruitless. I can’t see how any software will work if I cant even get to BIOS with the drive connected, unless some sort of BIOS flash is involved!
I’m assuming there is not a fault with the drive? Is my now admittedly "little long in the tooth", 1.5MB/s mobo capable of recognizing the new 3MB/s drive or am I also looking at a Mobo upgrade to get the drive to work? Not a novice but I haven’t had as much experience with SATA problems as I would like so not sure if I’m missing a trick or even the bleedin obvious!
Any help very gratefully received.