Hello All,
I tried yesterday to add a new unformatted 500GB SATA drive to an existing system with a 200GB SATA already installed.
Q1. When connecting the power supply I have a choice of 2 molex connections (i think thats correct – 4 connection points on the plug?). One has 8 wires connected to it, the other 4. Which power cable do i connect my new drive to?
Q2. After connecting the drive I go into BIOS and try to find if the drive is recognised but I cannot even find my existing SATA drive, which windows boots from, in BIOS. Totally confusing. All I can see are the 2 optical IDE drives and the floppy. Where do I check in BIOS to see the SATA drives?
Q3. So after exiting BIOS without changing anything I get to the first Windows screen (before logon screen) which is very very faint. The computer hangs for about 20 seconds and then the computer reboots. This cycle repeats until I diconnected the new SATA drive. What is this a symptom of?
Thanks in advance to all.
Windows XP Home SP3
MSI 6741 mobo
2G RAM
