To start off, I am trying to fix my friends computer because his hard drive has failed. He is planning on building a whole new computer in about six months, however he wants to get his current one going until then. I went out and bought a 250 GB/SATA 16Mb buffer Western Digital hard drive and a CP Technologies PCI card to SATA to plug the drive into. His system currently is a Asus A7N8X Motherboard with a 2800 Barton chip. The M/B doesn't have SATA connections so that is why I bought the card. I wanted him to be able to use the hard drive when he rebuilds his system so that is why we went with SATA instead of IDE. Now the problem I am having is that The bios does not identify the drive. I can't install the drivers to get the card to read the drive. does anyone have any ideas for me. Oh and the Coup de Gra is that there is no floppy drive, just a dvd burner.
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