Bios not detecting Hard Drive

[CalamitousSoul]

So all started when i needed a new HD to replace a broken one. I bought Western Digital 500gb HD and realized i forgot old hd was on a mb that only had IDE support. So I bought a p dual core system with a Gigabyte motherboard GA-G41M-ES2L. the system booted up fine but i was having trouble with the harddrive. It detected it once before and after a restart i could not see it again. I went into the bios and checked the standard CMOS features and noticed only my CD Drive was only being detected on the IDE Channel 0 Master and no other drives. My bios was also freezing up a sometimes during this whole ordeal. It froze up on Verifying DMI pool data. maybe 10 times out of the 50 reboots. I tried changing SATA cables and ports. I changed the ram around. I'm pretty tired right now so i wont check on it till tomorrow, but i have not tried to remove the PATA cable connected to my cdrom drive to see if it will at least detect the hard drive. Oh yeah i've also messed around with the on-chip SATA mode but still no HD detection.

thanks a bunch. you guys are the best.

 

[Billb2]

what OS?

 

[KF]

If your computer now does not freeze with the new SATA drive disconnected but does with it connected, sorry to say probably your drive died a sudden and early death. The BIOS is probably set to auto detect the drives, and hangs up when the drive only gives back junk in response.

This is what happened to me when I tried to confirm my brand new drive, which worked briefly, had died. After a noise, it was no longer detected at all in the computer for which it was intended. In a second computer, if it was connected, the boot screen would not go past black. But no doubt about it, my drive had killed itself in a small amount of time.

 

[CalamitousSoul]

pulling teeth did not fix my problem. going to return motherboard to see if that solves my issue. problem is i have to return motherboard and cpu. and swap them both out.
oh and i did call gigabyte to trouble shoot with them. they said to swap it out and see if that fixes issue. on the "What OS?" its win xp pro and vista. but i think it should'nt matter what OS since i cant install windows saying "cannot detect a hard drive."

 

[Billb2]

Originally posted by: CalamitousSoul
on the "What OS?" its win xp pro and vista.

XP, pre sp1 doesn't have native SATA support, but Vista does.