Last weekend I bought a new hard drive to upgrade my PC (WD10EZEX 1TB). I have an ASUS K8V SE motherboard and my hard drive is not recognized by my pc at all. I am receiving an error code during the stsrtup of my pc (hardware initiate failed). I have searched for solutions on the internet for a coup…

Hi the reason the motherboard will not find it is the Sata controller on the board which is a Via (VT8237) it will not support a 1 tb Sata 3 drive. . The drive you chose is a Sata 3 drive it will never work on your motherboard you need a Sata 2 drive and use a jumper to restrict it to Sata 1 speeds.…

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Hammey April 13, 2014, 11:07pm 6

Hi no the other board is very old and has a older Via chipset it should be fine in your board