2 Sata HDD not working at a time

Hello, you have to install again all the chipset which is the motherboard drivers, maybe your mouse is in USB type, so you have to install all the components needed for the mouse to locate.

It could be a bios thing have a look a there for a option to chage from IDE to SATA

845 chipset dont support sata devices and this is common problem that if unsupported device is forcefully bieng tried to work its goona happen sata support started from865 chipset u are lucky that ur hdd is getting detecting

choose RAID mode.. that should enable AHCI. (as per wikipedia) on your motherboard so that means.. that if you're installing the os on this hdd you may want to use the raid driver for it which is likely what's in the ASUS cd you got so your os get to use the hdd as it's meant to be used.

you may also want to make sure you're using the right sata connector on your motherboard: check page 33
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/P5B-VM/e2642p5b-vm.pdf

http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=P5B-VM


the problem could laso lay in your cables.. it's know the average may be affected by faulty SATA cable or faulty SATA power cable (powersupply issue)

you may also want to run a backup of your data and then run a defrag and a checkdisk on the drive, and it's probably also worth it to rung Seatools (download from this page: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/ ) to check the health of your hd.

Also try to update the SATA controller drivers or the motherboard chipset
http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=P5B-VM

lastly, post the results of your tests here on fixya or better yet: in here: http://forums.seagate.com for further follow up.

try each recommendation one at a time and then test the speed of your hd to see if there's improvement.. make sure you back up before you do anything drastic.

good luck (it took me 2 hours to pos

Hi rafiqbrush, let me go over a few things for the P5B MB.
There is a total of 5 serial ATA SATA drive ports on the board & one ATA IDE/PATA port.
The 4 main SATA ports are numbered, 1 - 4. Your primary SATA drive must be connected to SATA port 1. Your second SATA drive must be connected to SATA port 3. See page 2-26 in your manual.
All SATA drives are seen as master drives. Once the two SATA drives are connected (As per manual), boot to the bios main menu.
At the main bios menu make sure your bios shows both SATA drives. Than go to the bios title "Boot". Make sure your primary SATA drive 1 is listed in the boot order. Save & exit the bios. (SATA drive 1 must have windows installed on it).
Link to Asus P5B web site;
http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?modelname=P5B&SLanguage=en-us

Good luck rafiqbrush!
Thank you for using fixya.
Mike

make sure the jumper on the hard drive has 1 set to master and the 2nd one to slave. or set them both to cable select. i bet you have them both set to master and thats why it only boots when you have just one hooked up

Please try to login through the safe mode by press F8 key at booting time. and if doesn't get success than try to reinstall windows xp without sp2. Please some p3 system doesn't support win xp with sp2.This might definately solve your problem.Feel free to revert. Rest assured

Try this link:- http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=2800&lang=eng

You can buy a 3.02 pentium 4 processor and need not change any thing else. On the other hand try changing your hard disk with a one with smaller capacity such as 80 GB make it primary with the windows partition not exceeding 15 GB . Make this drive (80 GB )primary and other one secondary.Increase the virtual memory size of your system and for sure you wont need to buy any thing or be depressed anymore.

Check the SATA/RAID controller setting. It could have been set to [Disabled] Refer to your user?s manual for a detailed description on how to enable the onboard SATA/RAID controller by adjusting the jumper or BIOS settings. Regards SparkGap