You’ve just installed a new SATA hard drive on your system. At startup the drive isn’t recognized by the system. You’ve verified all the connections are firmly in place. Which of the following is the likely cause of the problem?
A. The BIOS doesn’t support the disk; the motherboard will need to be replaced.
B. The BIOS doesn’t support the disk; it needs to be flashed to accept the new drive.
C. The drive has an internal controller malfunction and is defective.
D. The drive hasn’t been formatted; startup won’t recognize it until it has been.
Solution
B. The most likely problem is that the device is too new for the BIOS. Upgrading the BIOS will probably fix this problem. If upgrading the BIOS doesn’t work, you can manually configure the BIOS to accept the performance characteristics of the new hard drive.
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Youve just installed a new SATA hard drive on your system- At startup (1).docx
1. You’ve just installed a new SATA hard drive on your system. At startup the drive isn’t
recognized by the system. You’ve verified all the connections are firmly in place. Which of
the following is the likely cause of the problem?
A. The BIOS doesn’t support the disk; the motherboard will need to be replaced.
B. The BIOS doesn’t support the disk; it needs to be flashed to accept the new drive.
C. The drive has an internal controller malfunction and is defective.
D. The drive hasn’t been formatted; startup won’t recognize it until it has been.
Solution
B. The most likely problem is that the device is too new for the BIOS. Upgrading the BIOS will
probably fix this problem. If upgrading the BIOS doesn’t work, you can manually configure
the BIOS to accept the performance characteristics of the new hard drive.
