new hard drive SATA 2 problem

[GTO]

i have a spare pc which is rarely used apart from burning xbox games, the hard drive currently is 300gb sata, which has just started clicking so thought i would buy a new one.(i did have a 500GB in there that was fine fo a while)

the new drive is the Samsung Eco Green 1.5TB Sata 2, this was going to replace the other drive.

i fitted the drive, put in the win 7 boot disc, and all that happens is it detects the samsung hd154ui drive in the boot process and stops dead. it does say hit ctrl+s or f4 for raid config, but nothing happens no matter when you press ctrl+s.

i assume this is a sata problem and the old motherboard (epox 8RDA3+) and new hdd are not getting on, will a pci sata 2 card be the answer.

thanks for any help

 

[little_pob]

Try restricting the new drive to 1.5Gbit/s mode.

Also see if there is a BIOS update for the motherboard.

 

[GTO]

Try restricting the new drive to 1.5Gbit/s mode.

Also see if there is a BIOS update for the motherboard.

the motherboard last bios update was 2004 so nothing available there.

where would i limit the hdd to 1.5 i can get into the bios but not the raid setup that is where it stops. thanks

 

[little_pob]

Note: the two left most columns of pins may be missing, you still want to 'jumper' the boxed pins shown in the image.

 

[GTO]

the booklet with the hdd says that is select cable jumpers, tried it anyway and has made no difference.

it still gets to the same point ctrl+s or F4 for raid setup, tried both even tried an old ps2 keyboard aswell to try to get into it.

 

[little_pob]

Master, slave and cable select is only relevent for IDE/PATA drives. The HD154UI is a SATA device.

If you have access to another computer with a spare SATA port test if you can see and format the drive in windows' disk management tool:
XP: Start > Run > diskmgmt.msc
Vista/7: Start > diskmgmt.msc

If that fails to find it download and burn to CD the test software from the Samsung website: ES-Tool | Downloads | SAMSUNG Hard Disk Drive Run the drive diagnostics - it is unusual, but DOA drives are not unheard of.

 

[GTO]

thats the booklet they included with the drive.
this is the only fullsize pc i have with sata,i have an acer desktop but its a small formfactor and probably only has one sata connector.
and almost everyone i know has laptops, or older download machines.

looks like a new motherboard and processor upgrade for it. thanks anyway