Attach power and data cables, use a new data cable. check that the hdd pwers up when the pc is switched on. as the machine boots up go into the bios and check whether it is detected there. There might be an option in bios to switch between IDE mode and native SATA mode.
without changing in bios just go into it and then press F10 to save and exit. If the drive does not show up then restart and re-enter bios then change the forementioned option to the other stting and press F10 again to save and exit. You should be lucky hopefully.
If this procedure does not give any joy check that your drive is compatible with your board. If it is a newer drive it may well need to have jumpers adjusted to set it to SATA2,which is what that board used I believe.
Good Luck
SOURCE: enable to boot bootable usb drive,ga-945gzm-s2 motherboard
reset your bios inside your pc its a big watch battery take it out for 10 15 min then put back it if that does not work take out the battery again and if you see neer your battery was ther should be a small jumper its usually black and its plugged in your board it also should have 3 pins to plug it in when you take it out plug it in the next 2 pins (the miffle one will plug in aswell then put it back in the first pins again put battery back in an try to boot it should work...
SOURCE: please give me the motherboard
Gigabyte hasn't made available the Windows 7 drivers for the GA-945GZM-S2 as of yet. You can try to contact them and see if they will eventually provide them:
http://tw2005.giga-byte.com/Company/ContactUs/contact_us.htm
It's possible that the Vista drivers may work, but there is no guarantee on that:
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2425#dl
If you have Vista, you can install the Vista drivers, then try to upgrade to Windows 7 from Vista. Here's a tutorial that may help:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/help/upgrading-from-windows-vista-to-windows-7
SOURCE: Download Gigabyte GA-945GZM-S2 sound Driver
Please click on the link below
http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/download-center.aspx?kw=GA-945GZM-S2
and click on the driver as per your Rev Version (you can find it on the motherboard or the motherboard box.
You can choose the operating system - XP and download the driver.
Hard drive manufacturers market drives in terms of decimal (base 10) capacity. In decimal notation, one megabyte (MB) is equal to 1,000,000 bytes, one gigabyte (GB) is equal to 1,000,000,000 bytes, and one terabyte (TB) is equal to 1,000,000,000,000 bytes.
Programs such as FDISK, system BIOS, Windows, and MacOS use the binary (base 2) numbering system. In the binary numbering system, one megabyte is equal to 1,048,576 bytes, one gigabyte is equal to 1,073,741,824 bytes, and one terabyte is equal to 1,099,511,627,776 bytes.
Simply put, decimal and binary translates to the same amount of storage capacity. Let's say you wanted to measure the distance from point A to point B. The distance from A to B is 1 kilometer or .621 miles. It is the same distance, but it is reported differently due to the measurement.
Capacity Calculation Formula
Decimal capacity / 1,048,576 = Binary MB capacity
Decimal capacity / 1,073,741,824 = Binary GB capacity
Decimal capacity / 1,099,511,627,776 = Decimal TB capacity
Example:
A 500 GB hard drive is approximately 500,000,000,000 bytes (500 x 1,000,000,000).
500,000,000,000 / 1,048,576 = 476,837 megabytes (MB) = 465 gigabytes (GB)
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