Sata drive not staying installed on my computer

[ToeTag]

Had this rig for awhile and it used to work well.  I have it all connected and if I go into system hardware and tell it to check for plug and play under drives it recognizes the sata drive. Then I go into dskmgmt and try to format and partition it and then it disappears.  Says that I need to refresh my drives because something is out of date and when I do nothing shows.  I've tried the legend and enhanced under the advanced / drives set up in bios and all I can get is the 0 and 1 position sata with one IDE primary or secondary but not both.  The board recognizes all drives but I can't use them all in conjunction.  I've updated to the latest bios version for my MB intel 865gbf.  I'm lost.  This same set up worked before and now it does not.  Running XP home 32 bit, sp3, 2 gig ram, 1 ide 160gb seagate, 1 memorex 16x dvd and a hitachi 1 tb sata II.   Vid is agp ATI radeon HD 3650 1 gig, and sound card is Creative X-Fi.  All the latest drivers for both.

So I guess how do you install a Sata drive on this rig and have it stick?

Thanks in advance

Tayler

[gyrene81]

that sounds familiar, i had the d865perl board and it finally died this month. ide drive controllers were the first things to flake out. the one sata drive i ran was a 250gb and the only way i could get it to work was it had to be my primary drive with the ide drives being secondaries. strangely there never was any problems hooking large sata drives up in external usb enclosures and using them.

if i correctly remember the info i found in some technical documentation was, in order for those larger sata2 drives to work properly on those boards you need to make sure you're running the latest biose, intel chipset and ahci drive controller drivers. i believe there also is a jumper on the drive that has to be put in place to set the data rate to 1.5 instead of 3.0 if you're going to use it as an internal drive.

good luck, i had to put my p4 system to rest this month.