MSI P4M900M3 Motherboard and SSD

I am trying to install a small Samsung SSD to an oldish computer from which I took out the hard drive. The motherboard is an MSI P4M900M3. It has two SATA ports. For some reason it will not pick up the SSD. I have put in a slow conventional SATA drive and it has found that without problem. I have installed an OS on this drive and tried disk manager but as expected there is no sign of the drive. The SSD is working because I have put it in another computer and even formatted it with Easeus to take an OS but still it remains unrecognised on the old computer.

I have tried swapping the SATA ports and I have tried it with the older drive disconnected. Whilst no doubt the motherboard SATA is v2 or even v1 I would have thought that the SSD should have worked albeit at a much reduced speed.

 

Here is the information from Belarc - The computer was built from scratch

*System Model
MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD MS-7387 1.0
Enclosure Type: Desktop

*Processor
2.40 gigahertz Intel Pentium Dual
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (2 total)
Not hyper-threaded

*Main Circuit Board
Board: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD MS-7387 1.0
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. V1.1 12/17/2007

*Drives
320.06 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
171.75 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
SONY DVD RW AW-G170A ATA Device [Optical drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

WDC WD3200AAKS-22B3A0 [Hard drive] (320.07 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WCAT12546943, rev 01.03A01, SMART Status: Healthy

*Memory Modules
2048 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM0' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM1' has 2048 MB

*Local Drive Volumes
c: (NTFS on drive 0) 320.06 GB 171.75 GB free

*Controllers
Standard floppy disk controller
ATA Channel 0 [Controller] (2x)
ATA Channel 1 [Controller] (2x)
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
VIA Bus Master IDE Controller - 0571

*Bus Adapters
VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller (4x)
VIA USB Enhanced Host Controller

*Operating System
Windows 7 Ultimate Service Pack 1 (build 7601)
Install Language: English (United States)
System Locale: English (United Kingdom)
Installed: 22/03/2015 14:57:27
Boot Mode: BIOS (Secure Boot not supported)

As you can see Belarc has not picked up the Samsung Drive

Also Windows was installed after - I had intended to install it on the Samsung.

 

From the number or replies I can see that this is not an easy problem to solve. If I got a PCI SATA card is it likely to cure the problem? If so which particular one should I go for. You can get them from £5 upwards.

 

Thanks for your reply.

I would like to what you mean by "reset" BIOS with all the HDDs removed as no I have not.

I have not installed windows on the SDD. I did put it in the new machine to make sure it was working which it was. I then used Easeus to format it only but the old machine still did not want to know. The old machine has Windows 7 ultimate installed on the old hard drive I put in. I only installed W7 on it after I found that the old machine did not like the SDD. My intention is to install Windows 7 on the SDD and use the old hard drive merely as storage.