Ridata SSD

[nickriviera]

Hello,

I unfortunately purchased a Ridata 32gb SATA SSD before learning of the superiority of the MTRON drives. At any rate, I connected it to my evga 680i motherboard, and the bios recognizes it as "external drive", but the drive does not show up in WinXP under "My computer" or in the local disk management under the admin tools of the control panel. Does anyone know if the certain mobos are incompatible (such as my 680i) with solid state SATA drives?

Any help would be appreciated- thanks, nick

[iJAC]

Hey Nick,
Before installing the drive and loading XP were you able to make changes in your bios to ACHI from what I have read sofar alot of people are making changes in order to get it access properly. I'm not saying this is the cause I am just trying to understand that because you do have XP up and running and that leads me to believe there is a setting that did not get checked. Under windows do you have (Safely Remove Hardware) icon on the task bar?

Also does your board have sATA or E-sATA connectors? Have you contacted Ridata about this issue and the your mobo' manufacturer? I have listed a couple of sites that maybe of help just to see if you've missed anything..:)

http://www.msfn.org/board/enable-AHCI-Intel-ICH9-XP-t109450.html
http://www.hardforum.com/ This forum has alot of 680i enthusiats.
This forum may be useful aswell- http://www.evga.com/forums/

Keep us posted!