Failed IDE Detection

[Servbot]

When I start my computer, it freezes on ide detection. I tried switching all of the devices with each other. I tried switching the cables. I tried leaving each one unplugged. I tried pretty much everything. The weirdest part is that the same thing was happening a couple weeks ago. I just kept messing with it until it worked, but now I can't seem to find such luck. It seems like I probably have a bad ide controller. Anyone have any idea what I could do?

 

[Cornyd00d]

I have kind of this same problem, it all started when I bought my new hard drive, a western digital 120 gb, my old hd, IBM 30gb did not do this. Oddly enough this problem never happened as long as I had my IBM hd as master and my WD as secondary. I just recently switched my WD to master and took the IBM out all together and I have been noticing a lot of problems.
1.)Takes FOREVER to load, like seriously takes about 2-3 minutes to load windows.
2.) windows does not load up unless the winxp cd is in the cd-rom drive.
3.)I have 512mb of ram and it is only recognizing and reporting 256. However when I unplug my cd-rom drives from the MB it then recognizes all 512.....?
4.)Detecting IDE drives takes about a year to go away and find my HD.
This is just all I can think of right now, if anyone has any ideas at all please post and help us out.

 

[Cornyd00d]

Ok its weird but all but the ram problem were solved when I changed my jumper settings on my hard drive to Cable Select instead of master. You might want to try that too. But I am still only showing 256 mb ram when I have 512 in there.

Edit: I moved my ram to the 2 unused slots and it seems to recognize both of them just fine now..

 

[Servbot]

Ok, I will give it a shot. I'm hoping it's more than a coincidence that we both have WD 120gb drives..

 

[Green Man]

From my experience, WDs are real touchy if they are the lone drive on the channel and you have them set to Master instead of Single. You might want to check that.