ok, figured it out. it was the ide cable. moved the drive to another machine and it booted, saw the drive, formatted it in windows. pop it back into the new machine, same problem. changed out the ide cable and it worked. thanks for all the suggestions...
mfg date on drive is september 14 2002 -
ok, i tried disconnecting the SATA and booted off the IDE. It booted into windows 2000 and died with blue screen, said it was missing a system file? then added the winxp cd and powered off then on, it detected the drive and I booted off the cd. Drop...
well, that didn't work. rolled back the nvidia driver for ide controller still hanging...it detects the drive then says "primary master...." and stops, symbols at the top of the screen appears and have to power it off. i went into the bios and i think it sees the drive....when the drive is not...
All is working fine with my new build, but now I am trying to add a 30G maxtor IDE drive and the computer locks on ide detection. I am running WinXP and it boots fine off the 200G SATA, but when I add the IDE drive it won't boot. The IDE drive does have win2k installed on it...don't really...
i am new to the forum but have recently found alot of answers to my questions here. i need some help and haven't had much luck finding any on the web. my problem is after installing the new video card the machine powers up but nothing happens on the screen, no bios, post, nothing? any ideas...
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