Pc can't boot up , no display , hdd led is constatly lighted

Hi, according to your mobo manual it supports SATA1/SATA2 hard drives so it's recommended to update BIOS, the latest I found it has release date 2006-06-29, you can find it in the folllowing link: Support For K8MM MSI Global

MSI K8MM-V Motherboard, How much support of Hdd capacity in Sata port

When you power on does it beep once and then seem like it boots even though you can't see the screen? Does the caps lock light on the keyboard (if you have one) toggle on and off when you press the key?

Sorry, I can't find a color diagram. But check page 2 of the HP support manual, this shows all the jumpers and board connectors. You can download the manual from the link below:

http://bizsupport2.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00358730/c00358730.pdf

Hello, You need to right click on to my computer>Manage>choose disk management, you should format the new SATA HDD there.

If that will work for you that is good but if not, i thing you should updated the BIOS and you have to make sure that you get that update to MSI website. if you are not familiar w/ that asked some one who know how to flash BIOS. it is risky if you are not familiar doing BIOS update!!!

Plz check your motherboard is support new generation SATA speed. May be the MSI K8MM-V 'll not support 3gbps speed drives. So you need to change the HDD speed to 1.5Gbps by changing the jumper setting of HDD (plz refer HDD manual)

One thing you can do is to reset the bios setting by clearing the bios. You will need to revothe battery and remove the jumper CMOS battery cc1 .
Note the setting before removing.Usullay ithe default is pin one and pin two.

One oher thing that you can do is to update the bios version
This is sure it will correct the problem oc cd/dvd.

Here are two links below for bios update try this

http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/BIOS/Msi/MSI-K8MM-V-Bios-18.shtml


http://drivers.softpedia.com/progDownload/MSI-K8MM-V-Bios-18-Download-45381.html

ok

the manual for your motherboard can be downloaded here:
http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=downloadfile&dno=3812&type=manual

On page 2-17, the pin-outs for those connectors are specified in detail. They are part of the JFP2 header:
PIN SIGNAL DESCRIPTION
1 HD_LED_P Hard disk LED pull-up
2 FP PWR/SLP MSG LED pull-up
3 HD_LED_N Hard disk active LED
4 FP PWR/SLP MSG LED pull-up
5 RST_SW_N Reset Switch low reference pull-down to GND
6 PWR_SW_P Power Switch high reference pull-up
7 RST_SW_P Reset Switch high reference pull-up
8 PWR_SW_N Power Switch low reference pull-down to GND
9 RSVD_DNU Reserved. Do not use.

-Jon

Sir,

Click this link for dowload the driver.


Thanks
Good Luck

This is common to other mainboards, the SATA controller have it's own BIOS, but it only works correctly using two identical SATA HD's at same time for data protection purposes. If you have a free PCI slot there are expansion cards based on VIA chipset VT6421 with 2 internal SATA ports, other external and one IDE. See one here