Help please Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro Motherboard

Could anyone please assist me. I have replaced my GA-7VTXE+ motherboard with
a GA-7n400 Pro. I intend to use exactly the same set up, ie 2 hard drives
80gb & 40gb 7200; 1024 2100 DDR Ram and CDRW; with windows XP Home.
When I start up the PC it detects the two hard drives; cdrw; RAM then it
says:-
Please Wait For IDE Scan
Drive 0 Not Detected
Drive1 Not Detected
Drive 2 Not Detected
Drive 3 Not detected

It will not allow me to start up even in safe mode
Could anyone please give me any help/advice

thanks

 

Check that all cables are connected correctly, and
fit snuggly.

Enter the CMOS setup and make sure that the drives are
detected correctly in the BIOS -- set to autodetect.

Whilst in the BIOS, load the failsafe default setup, save
and exit.

 

I have tried that; when it starts up it says it has detected the HDDs so the
cables must be fitted correctly. I have also checked in CMOS and that
confirms H|DDs. Have also loaded failsafe etc, but it keeps saying when
trying to boot up, it has not detected IDE drives 0/1/2/3.
This board also has SATA, I am not intending to use at the present; just
wondered whether I have to set someting for that?

 

Not so -- check them; the floppy cable could easily be
on the wrong way; the cables could be loose. Take
advice, or don't.

It doesn't confirm that the cables are good and secure,
nor that the floppy cable is on the right way around.

Again, open the box and physically check ALL of the
cables.

One step at a time.
<snip>

 

Sorry if I appeared that I was not taking advice.
I have checked and double checked that cables are fitted correctly and
firmly.

Allan

 

If the floppy cable is reversed the light will stay on

 

Have you check the motherboard web site for any
BIOS upgrades?

<snip>

 

All sorted now..................basically I reformatted it and started
afresh.
It would probably appear that the old drivers for the motherboard (VIA)
might have been causing a problem.
Thanks everyone for your help; I will probably be back soon as I am going to
install SATA hard drive shortly
Thanks again all

Allan

 

Gigabyte says that this board has both IDE and Serial Raid.
The "Please Wait For IDE Scan" message is for the IDE raid section of
the MB. If you are not using any raid function or donot have any drives
connected to the RAID outputs go to the BIOS and disable both IDE
and Serial RAID. If at a later date you think you may use RAID then
leave the RAID enabled in BIOS and when you install XP press the F6
key when it asks if you have any third party RAID controller software.
Get the ITA Raid from the CD and put on FDD as XP will only look at
FDD for the driver.
The reason I say install the RAID driver with the XP installation is if
you don't install the raid driver they cannot be added later. They can
only be added with a clean install of XP.

 

You're welcome.