SATA HD with Asus AV7600

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I have a Serial ATA Seagate hard drive with an Asus AV7600. I'm having trouble installing any operating system, or even getting the BIOS to notice it. How can I get it to work? I put the drivers for the SATA dirve on a floppy, pressed f6 on setup. This seemed to work, but after it loaded, it asked for me to try it again. It does that until my finger gets tired and I exit, because it doesn't work. I tried updating the BIOS with a bit of trouble as well. I just put the BIOS update on a floppy.. then press alt+f2 during post, right? It brings me to the place to update, I type.. what.. the filename? Any help would be nice.

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1 enable boot from floppy in bios.
2 disable ide hard drives in bios if you have none.
3 enable all sata features in bios
4 save and exit bios.
5 boot from floppy with all sata/raid files (this will load the sata drivers)
6 setup raid drives (ps...drives is plural. must have at least 2 identical drives. the whole idea behind raid is to join multiple drives. it will not allow 1 drive to be used in a raid config)
7 load windows and press f6 as you did before
8 windows should now see the drives and format them