mother board: ECS KT600-A
processor: AMD Athlon 2200+
memory: 2GB DDR
running Windows XP Pro on original IDE hdd
bought Samsung 750GB SATA2 753LJ
Upon connecting the Samsung drive, before Windows loads from the IDE hard drive, I get a message saying a scan is taking place for the new hard drive or something and to "Press into user window." Nothing happens when I press tab. After the scan I get the message: "Hardware initiate failed, please check device. The bios does not be installed. Press to continue." The mob has two SATA ports, neither one works.
The only thing I tried was disconnecting the IDE drive and stealing one of its jumpers in order to put it on the Samsung drive. This didn't help. The support guy at Samsung said to try that to get the drive to change from 3.0 GB/s to 1.5. He didn't seem to know much about what he was talking about. Eg --- he thought the hdd had eight pins when it only has four.
I tried to update BIOS from ECS web site, but I couldn't figure out how to, and besides none of the problems listed that the BIOS updates resolve match this issue. Thanks for reading. I hope you can help.