Mainboard : Gigabyte GA-K8N-SLi
Chipset : nVidia nForce4
Processor : AMD Athlon 64 3800+ @ 2400MHz
Physical Memory : 4096MB (4 x 1024 DDR-SDRAM )
Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM v1.1)
Hard Disk : Seagate ST3320620AS ATA Device (320GB)
DVD-Rom Drive : PHILIPS DVDR1640P
DVD-Rom Drive : DVD-16X DVD-ROM BDV316C
Monitor Type : VW222 - 22 inches
Network Card : NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
Operating System : Windows 7 Ultimate Professional Media Center 6.01.7600 (32-bit)
DirectX : Version 11.00
When doing a clean install no drives are found! got sata drives from Gigabyte site but as its an old board they dont support windows 7 so it does not show up on scan,is there any other sata drivers that can be used
With XP not Vista or 7 you would likely have the need for a driver disk and the F6 option to see Windows go on a sata drive. If the drive is in good working order it should be listed on the post screen as well as seen by the 7 installer.
As far as Socket 939 boards it's hard to find the next socket series AM2 boards having been already been discontinued. The driver support for the board you have there only goes upto XP/XP Pro 64 while the bios utility shows upto the 64bit 7.
Getting back to the problem of not seeing the drive you may want to check the drive's data cable and power plug to see if those are in fully. On the last build here I ran into a phantom drive that would disappear and then reappear to find the data cable's board end plug had lifted up just a little in the port. Once pulled and replugged down fully the drive was constant afterwards.
Something simple and easy to overlook! If the drive has been working all along without problems do look to be able to rule that out. That would be the first iitem.
W7 Ultimate x64/W10 Pro x64/W11 Pro Triple Boot - Main PC W7 Remote PC Micro ATX W7 Pro x64/W11 Pro
CPU
AMD Phenom II X4 975 Deneb 3.6ghz - 965 2nd remote pc
Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-790XTA-UD4-Gigabyte GA-880GM-D2H remote pc
Memory
Kingston Hyper X DDR3 1600 1.5v 16gb - Hyper X Fury 8gb 2nd
Graphics Card(s)
MSI HD Radeon 5750 1gb - MSI HD Radeon 6450 on mini tower
Sound Card
Creative Labs X-Fi Xtreme Audio P - Realtek onooard 2nd case
Monitor(s) Displays
ASUS VW199T-P 19" HP 2082a Main-HP 2082a 20" remote pc
Screen Resolution
Asus 1440x900 - HP 1600x900
Hard Drives
WD Black 1TB HD per OS W7, W10, and pending W11 presently on 500gb OS Drive - Pending Triple 1TB HDs for Spanned Storage/backup volume
Single 2TB external USB enclosure, single 1TB System 7 Host/Boot drive, Pending 8TB external HD for system image b
PSU
Corsair 750TX - primary / Corsair CX600 - second
Case
Antec 900-2 - SSD compatible / NZXT Vulcan mini tower
