motherboard hdd detection question

Hi, I am doing a motherboard upgrade and am having a problem with the motherboard. for some reason it is not detecting the primary 160 gb hard drive in the bios setup. checked all the connections and they are correct. When I first enter the bios setup it says the primary hdd is not detected. If I detect it using the auto function it shows up as WDC 1600....... showing that it is now recognized. Now when I go to boot sequence to select it as the first boot device it is not listed so I removed it and installed a different smaller 80gb hard drive and it detects it ok but it is not the one I want to use. I put the 160 gb hard drive back in the original computer that it was removed from and it works fine.Tried it back in the new case on this new motherboard and the same problem, It detects it in auto but it is not listed in the boot sequence. this is very weird. anyway, my question is that is this motherboard faulty or is there something I am overlooking. I can return it for a replacement. thanks for any replies.

 

Hard to tell without knowing what the board is.
Older boards are not be able to recognise drives over 137 GB.
Some have a bios upgrade for this.
With some you can manually detect and set the drive parameters.

 

thanks for the reply. this is a brand new msi K9N6SGM-V amd motherboard with am2 4000+ cpu and 1 gig ram. The dvd and usb card reader are detected but the bios does not want to detect the primary ide drive which is a 160 gig ide hard disk out of my amd xp1700 computer and it works fine. Like I say as soon as I go to the bios setup it shows the primary ide as not detected so I auto detect it and it picks it up as WDC1600....... and says it is a 160 gig hard disk but when I go to boot sequence to set it as the first boot device it is not listed so I can't select it to boot up the system. I built a lot of computers and never saw a problem like this before so I'm wondering if the new motherboard is faulty.

 

Well this board should certainly have no difficulty with a 160G or larger drive.

The drive is correctly recognised, but can't be set as a boot drive.
Is this, perhaps because you have yet to create a bootable partitition on it?

 

Hi, finally figured out the problem. I was using the 160 gig hard disk with another hdd on the same channel in the old computer and had the jumper set to master with slave. moved the jumper to single drive and it's good to go now. thanks for your replies.

 

Good for you.
Makes you feel better when you solve it yourself, in the end