BIOS hard drive problems

On 12 Apr 2006 16:23:47 -0700, ken.walden RemoveThis @gmail.com wrote:

>I have a computer I was working on putting together. It has a new
>M863G motherboard with a AMD Thunderbird processor. However, I have
>not been able to get it to recognize any hard drives. It recognizes
>the CD-ROM, but ihas not recognized the 8 gig and 60 gig drives I have
>put in it. Both of these drives are usable and recognized in other
>systems. However they do not show up at all in the BIOS screens. I
>believe I have the jumpers set correctly to Master. Can you give me
>any more ideas of things to try that would make them visible?
>
>Thanks,
>

If they are western digital, a single drive should be set as such, not
master. Otherwise try a different cable.
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Have you tried just detecting one drive at a time, changed cables? Can you
feel it running and getting power? And additionally are you sure you have
the cable connected to the mb with pin #1 in the right orientation? Lots of
mbs these days don't make it terribly easy to determine where #1 pin is.
Last, are you sure about the jumpering and that it's correct. Try master
jumpering first.

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> On 12 Apr 2006 16:23:47 -0700, ken.walden DeleteThis @gmail.com wrote:
>
>>I have a computer I was working on putting together. It has a new
>>M863G motherboard with a AMD Thunderbird processor. However, I have
>>not been able to get it to recognize any hard drives. It recognizes
>>the CD-ROM, but ihas not recognized the 8 gig and 60 gig drives I have
>>put in it. Both of these drives are usable and recognized in other
>>systems. However they do not show up at all in the BIOS screens. I
>>believe I have the jumpers set correctly to Master. Can you give me
>>any more ideas of things to try that would make them visible?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>
> If they are western digital, a single drive should be set as such, not
> master. Otherwise try a different cable.
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I've been doing one hard drive at a time. I know the cables are all
right because I've used the same IDE cable and power plug as I do for
the CD-ROM. That is detected fine. I've tried all different jumper
settings and it doesn't seem to make a difference. I would have to
assume that the hard drive is dead, but that doesn't seem likely. The
hard drive I'm currently using came straight out of a working computer,
it's a 8 gb quantum. The other hard drive was a 60 gig that I couldn't
get working in this computer and put straight into another computer in
which it works. Very strange.
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