Windows 2000 Professional SP4
2.6 GHz processor
1.5 GB DDR RAM
All I know about the motherboard is this written on it: P4M80-M4 (I lost the manual for it)
I've got a new SATA drive, 400 GB (to compliment a 40 GB (with OS on it) and 300 GB (okay, so I'm a show-off -- and a llama for some reason according to my mini-profile)). I'm not sure if my motherboard's SATA is 1.5 or 3.0 Gbit/s. I've got it all hooked up with the SATA1 port on my motherboard and my new power supply with the SATA power cord.
Now, for the problem: When starting up the computer since installing this new SATA drive, it pauses for about a minute on the BIOS logo screen, then continues on as if nothing is wrong. Then during the loading of Windows, it pauses for a minute or two. Then it continues on as if nothing is wrong. I finally get into Windows, but the drive's not working. I have checked the connections, but it's just not working. It's not showing up in My Computer. I expected this, so next I checked in Computer Management | Disk Management. It's not showing up in there either. So I went into the Device Manager, and noticed a problem that was not there before I installed this SATA drive: VIA SATA RAID Controller is showing a problem. I check out it's properties to see this: "This device cannot start. (Code 10)"... So, I uninstalled it and then reinstalled it from the CD. I've done so much searching for the solution that I've wasted my night and am going to be awfully sleepy waking up for school tomorrow. The only other thing I've turned up is this in the event log for an event ID 4 from viamraid: "Driver detected an internal error in its data structures for . "
In my BIOS I have the SATA Mode set to IDE. The only options are IDE and RAID, I don't know everything there is to know about RAID but I know it's something I don't want. Another thing I don't want is to update the BIOS. I've heard quite the amount of horror stories about doing that, and would much prefer not to risk it.