ok im 16 so i dont know what everythings called sorry, but for some reason my motherboard, which has both sata and ide ports for hard drives, only recognizes the ide ports. also all the ports that show up in the bios setup screen have a way to auto detect ide drives connected but nothing for sata...so maybe im in the wrong screen because theres another that has two options: serial and parallel ports. maybe thats it? but they also dont recognize anything as plugged in.
my question is am i looking in the wrong place or is something up with the motherboard?
anyways thanks to anyone who helps me out