Hi jono2005, and welcome to the forum! Trojan Killer With Crack here. This looks like kind of a unusual mobo. I say that because the manual doesn't seem to show any BIOS setup fields to configure or enable the SATA ports or the RAID.

I will warn you that the SATA port drives probably will not 'show up' on the BIOS Main screen. That screen only displays devices on the PRI_IDE1 and SEC_IDE1 ports. Many mobos show the SATA1 & 2 ports as 'Third IDE Master' and 'Fourth IDE Master', but yours doesn't seem to do this. However, if you go to the Boot- Boot Device Priority screen, you ought to see your SATA controller or drives, as available choices for boot devices. If you don't see them there under Boot, make sure power is applied (SATA drives need power separately from the data cable). Also if the drives have 2 power connectors, only use one per drive, never both. And SATA Drives typically don't need jumpers.

I could be wrong but I think that your mobo is one of the many whose SATA ports will only run in RAID mode. You have 2 drives, so that should work. But for Windows to see the drives, you will need to press TAB during POST to get into the VIA RAID BIOS utility. There, create an array on your drives before starting Windows Setup. You will need to choose between RAID0 and RAID1; may I suggest 'RAID 1 for data protection'?

This is how to configure the Asus KS8-MX motherboard to recognize a sata drive as a boot device. Install the 1019 beta bios. Jan 11, 2006 I connected it successfully to my mobo that is an ASUS P4V8X-X. I can't boot from my SATA Disk in a P4V8X-X within. Via the Sata drive.

AND you will also need to prepare a floppy from that driver. There is a MakeDisk.exe utility in that driver package, and that is what you run to make the floppy. I don't know your experience level, but remember that pressing F6 is only part of it. Then you have to wait 2-3 minutes, after which you have to press 'S' to Specify Additional Device, and it is the resulting dialog that winds up reading your floppy. The dialog should allow you to choose 'VIA Serial ATA RAID Controller', and that is what you want. Hope this helps, -clintfan.

Clicking from drives is never a very good sign. Hard to believe both could be bad, though. So tell me about your power supply. And did you attach both the ATXPWR1 and ATX12V1 connectors (manual section 1.12.4)? Even though this is a VIA chipset, it is still AMIBIOS, and so it seems strange that there is nothing in the BIOS screens to control the RAID function. Here I can only go by what the manuals show.