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Old May 24th, 2004, 12:26 AM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Drive Detection problem

I probably have one thread on this topic kicking around somewhere from 8 months ago, but oh well.

Here's the problem. I'm putting together my brothers computer, and i have everything in the case with all the plugs/connectors in the right places (I triple checked ). when I boot up, the system does not detect the primary master (hdd). When I go into the setup I set the drives to auto detect, and all three show up. the floppy, the CD-rom, and the hdd. I set everything else up in the bios and restart the computer. When the system does the hardware check, the primary master drive shows up as blank again. Is it the hard drive (western digital caviar drive) that is bad, or the MoBo (Asus A7N266-VM)?
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Old May 24th, 2004, 01:00 AM     #2 (permalink)
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Make sure its jumpered to cable select and put it on the "end" connector of an 80wire IDE cable (ATA100/133)

Even if its new he doesnt have to format it for it to be recognized during the POST
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is it on the cable by itself? if not, try it by itself...set on "cs" or "single"

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1. the hdd and the cd-rom are on different cables.
2. the hdd is set to CS.
3. it is the hdd from his old computer, so there is some data on it. I was going to format it anyway though.

my main concern is if you guys think/know if its the hdd. I can easily replace that. I just don't want to have to buy a new MoBo.
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On the wester digital HD's if it is the only drive you need to remove the jumper, there should be a diagram on the face of the drive itself, I had the same problem myself and I just happen to look at the picture. I could have kicked my self then.
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