hard drive/bios error

[vaderboy]

Hi, don't know what forum this would go under, but here is my problem. I'm trying to install 2 80GB sata drives on my mom's computer but cant because the bios doesn't support this. I'm trying this on a AsusRock K7S8X motherboard with bios P1.20. Whenever I try to run the bios flash utillity in DOS I recieve the following, ERROR! CAN'T FIND SYSTEM BIOS' HOOK. What is a bios hook and why doesn't my floppy point the computer to the right location?
Thanks for any help you may be able to provide.

[Cricket]

How are you going to connect 2 SATA hard drives to a motherboard that doesn't even have SATA ports or controllers? Are you using a PCI SATA controller card?

:) Cricket

[vaderboy]

yes, I have a SIIG pci sata raid card hooked up to the computer. the pci card recognizes the hard drives but bios doesn't.

[Cricket]

Did you install the SIIG PCI card drivers?

:) Cricket

[glc]

The system bios will not see the drives on a PCI card - the card has its own bios. To install Windows on one of those drives you have to use a floppy with the drivers and press F6 when prompted to install 3rd party storage drivers.

[vaderboy]

Did what you suggested glc, and it worked. Thanks. For some reason I thought that the bios had to recognize the drives to be able to install windows.

[glc]

Yes, the bios DOES have to see the drive - the CARD'S bios in this case.