MOBO wont recognise SATA HDD....Help!

Hey guys, I'm wondering if one of you guys here could possibly help me out.

I've given my buddy my old PC, he's a bit short on cash and his is toast, I didn't have a Optical drive or a decent HDD to give him so we found a deal and got a 500gb Segate SATA and a Samsung SATA Optical drive, they were on sale.

Now, here's where the problems start.

Hardware =

Asus K8v se Deluxe
1gb ram (2x 512's)

No matter what I do, this mobo refuses point blank to recognise either of these drives, the closest I have got is auto build an Array, then it shows up in the utility but not the bios.
After many combinations of connections I decided this morning that I'll simply install XP on an old 10gb (yes ten) IDE drive using and even older cd drive.
That worked fine, installed no probs. Hooked up the SATA drives hoping to simply use the HDD as storage and the Optical drive as normal.......no such luck.
Bois doesn't see them, XP doesn't see them and pretty soon I wont be able to see once they have taken flight......I'm at a loss.
I've tried lots of things but I don't want to list them incase I did it wrong but in mentioning it gets passed over.

ANY suggestions would be apreciated and since some of the best minds in the business are here I'm hoping someone knows how to sort this out.

Thank you in advance.

 

I'd start with resetting you BIOS to optimized defaults and then trying, if that doesn't work look for some setting in your BIOS to do with SATA ...

 

Hi Nedlamar,

in addition to Drizzles post (sata setting in bios), you need the sata drivers that come with the motherboard. once you have those, reinstall windows and at the beginning of setup, windows prompts at the bottom to hit F6 to install 3rd party drivers.

Techsent

 

http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?modelname=SK8N&SLanguage=en-us

Just dl the RAID driver and pop it unzipped on a disk, and follow what techsent and Drizzles said.

 

Here is the Asus links for the manuals for that mobo:

http://support.asus.com/download/download_item.aspx?model=K8V SE Deluxe

With my Asus P5WDH I have to go into BIOS>>>>IDE Configuration>>>>>Onboard IDE Operate Mode and set>>>>>(change this to [Enhanced Mode]). This allows my BIOS to recognise IDE and SATA connections on the mobo. You may also need to ensure that "Configure SATA As" is NOT set to any RAID type but is set to [Standard IDE], once again allowing recognition of SATA and or IDE devices. Have a look here to start with. The devices should be recognised before any need to install RAID drivers, in fact as you don't indicate a RAID array I don't think you even need those.