SATA Hard Drive with P5K Motherboard

[Drewski]

Hello,
I have a P5K motherboard with a 200 IDE hard drive. 9 months ago I bought a
Samsung SATA hard disk. I can detect to install stuff. OK. And then boom. A few clicks later it makes the soul. I relocated my 200GB IDE and everything works.
Today I bought the same drive in 400 GB and it is impossible to detect it. The first thing that I find bizarre is that the hard disk after being fed seem either vibrate or make noise .... and after the bios I'm lost .. Thank you for helping me.

[ApPy10]

Is your BIOS updated?

[Drewski]

Well, previously the Sata hard disk was detected so how can you be so sure that I need to update BIOS for it?

[Drewski]

Is it possible that the power supply is not enough for it being only 400 watts?

[Team Leader]

This is probably not the solution you're looking for, but a solution nonetheless.

Just unplug your other HDDs and force the install to pick up on the lone HD.

[TEcH GuRuJI]

I wonder if third-market SATA controller cards could be used as a stopgap measure (until a compatible hard disk could be used with the board)?

Update: for some odd reason, the board seems to prefer Seagates plugged into it.

Here's all the downloads for the P5K including the current BIOS.

[bidas76]

Hello,
It 's very funny because I have exactly the same problem....how it is possible ?
If you find the solution i'm interesing in it....