MSI VT8237 Motherboard & SATA Harddisk

[sherrynM]

Can someone help me?

Motherboard (M/B) - MSI VT8237 (supports PIV Processors)

My current HD disk (IDE) is probably dieing, I wish to connect a new HD and transfer the data. Currently IDE HD are expensive when compared to SATA. The M/B has two SATA Sockets, but M/B BIOS does not display the SATA Ports, When I connect a SATA H/D it says NO H/D FOUND.

How can I enable the SATA Ports in the BIOS.

Thanks in advance.

 

[zCexVe]

Tried updating the BIOS? Then try again.

P.S- MSI have their mobo name as MS-xxxx V x.x etween 2nd and 3rd PCI slots.Or some PCI slots.Put that name.

 

[racool]

BIOS update karoth hari yai

 

[Sudantha_s]

Here's a possible answer for what it's worth..
Check your bios whether you have RAID and the drives enabled.
If so, that's why you don't see them in the bios.
They are no longer seen by the bios as single drives
because they are now enumerated as a RAID set..

Disabling RAID will restore bios recognition of the drives, of course.

 

[Ozzman]

there shud be updates available in the net...

 

[Sudantha_s]

Tried updating the BIOS? Then try again.

P.S- MSI have their mobo name as MS-xxxx V x.x etween 2nd and 3rd PCI slots.Or some PCI slots.Put that name.

what MS-xxxx ver x.xx and BIOS you use?

As you keep stating you have a FIR version, it means you have: Firewire, IR and Raid (mostly promise)

 

[zCexVe]

Here's a possible answer for what it's worth..
Check your bios whether you have RAID and the drives enabled.
If so, that's why you don't see them in the bios.
They are no longer seen by the bios as single drives
because they are now enumerated as a RAID set..

Disabling RAID will restore bios recognition of the drives, of course.

You are dead wrong on the spot.

user has posted VTxxxx that means it has a VIA chipset.They do not have raid.

 

[djanuradhaxxx]

UPDATE BIOS.....

 

[Sudantha_s]

You are dead wrong on the spot.

user has posted VTxxxx that means it has a VIA chipset.They do not have raid.

 

[zCexVe]

what MS-xxxx ver x.xx and BIOS you use?

As you keep stating you have a FIR version, it means you have: Firewire, IR and Raid (mostly promise)

No FIR again.And keeping track of MSI,Only Diamond versions got the Firewire and the Promise SATA controller they had for budget boards did not had RAID as I remember.Might wanna check.Again it is just history.

 

[zCexVe]

he he , should remember those letters bro.If not troubleshooting can take hours and days.That chipset was the most common since it was the cheapest that day.

 

[sherrynM]

It does stats VIA Technology at boot-up.

 

[sherrynM]

The existing BIOS is AMIBIO version 3.31a

 

[sridas]

Tried updating the BIOS? Then try again.

P.S- MSI have their mobo name as MS-xxxx V x.x etween 2nd and 3rd PCI slots.Or some PCI slots.Put that name.

 

[sherrynM]

M/B Details - MS 7043 Ver !00
PT8 Neo-V

 

[sherrynM]

M/B Details - MS 7043 Ver 100
PT8 Neo-V

 

[sherrynM]

While booting it states

VIA Technologies VIA VT8237 Serial ATA RAID BIOS Settings Utility V4.31

 

[zCexVe]

Yopu said your BIOS version is AMI 3.31a right? In MSI BIOS if there is 'a' it means it is American BIOS.Normally it would be Asian BIOS.Yeah they have both...
But works even cross flashed.

Anyway in Asia BIOS v 1.7 it says it corrected 136G which I think is ATAPI 6 28 bit addressing into 48 bit addressing issue.So you might want to get the latest 2.0 BIOS and flash it from here.

http://asia.msi.com/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=bios&maincat_no=1&prod_no=583

You are so lucky I am bored now to help you out.

 

[zCexVe]

While booting it states

VIA Technologies VIA VT8237 Serial ATA RAID BIOS Settings Utility V4.31

Ha,different ROM for RAID .LOL you want to upgrade BIOS for sure coz they had 136GB issue.Anyway have RAID disabled if not auto.
P.S- check whether you have USB key/HDD in the bootable options menu.

 

[sherrynM]

if I update the BIOS to Ver. 2.0 will it resolve the SATA problem?