Hanging on 'Detecting IDE Drivers'

[supster]

I had everything going fine(except floppy) just finished installing windows. I was getting "floppy disk error (40)" so I was trying some different combinations to try to fix it. The last thing I tried was changing the power cable that was going to it, when i turned on the system the power LED flashed for a sec and then it turned off. I put back the power cable I was using before on the floppy and booted. Its an Epox 8RDA+ motherboard and a WD 80gig hard drive.

Now I'm getting stuck at "Detecting IDE Drivers"

I can't even get into bios via Delete. Any ideas??

I've tried removing all the cables from the floppy to the motherboard.

I have tried reseting cmos, no help.

I tried removing the IDE devices, here are the results, I tried most on both primarmy/secondary and master/slave settings.
All IDE devices removed: able to boot
Only HDD plugged in: Hang at "detecting..."
Only CDROM plugged in: able to boot, cdrom detected
Only floppy plugged in: able to boot (but still not detected, get "floppy disk(s) error (40)")
Floppy AND CDROM plugged in: able to boot


Seems like its the hard drive, but the wierd thing is the system was running just an hour ago and nothing was changed with the hard drive since then. My best guess would have been the floppy or the motherboard. Any ideas?!

 

[mechBgon]

Make sure to set the WD's jumper to "Single Drive" if it's on an IDE cable all by itself. (look at the label, it will show how)

 

[mechBgon]

Also, if that doesn't remedy the problem, check this thread for another possible problem and solution: click me

 

[supster]

Ok thanks, I'm going to try some different jumper settings now.

I thought the cutting pin1 wire was if the hard drive was not being detected, my problem isn't that its not being detected, its that it wont POST with the HD in =/

 

[flashbacck]

I had that SAME problem only 2 or 3 days ago!

For me, the only solution I could find was to place both my hd's on 1 ide cable and my cdrw on its own. are you trying to place both drives on the same ide? and, of course, double check the jumper settings. goodluck!

 

[supster]

I just tried it as jumper on single master, and master with slave present (cdrom being the slave).

no go =(

I also don't hear the hard drive spinning, in fact I put my ear up to it and i hear nothing! I used the same power cord that gave power to the CDROM a second ago, so I don't think its a power supply issue, defected hard drive??

 

[supster]

Any other ideas? Should I RMA it?

 

[flashbacck]

so if your hd is set as "master" and you hook it up to the "master" side of the ide cable (the first connector from the mobo connection) and it's by itself (no cdrom/floppy). it doesn't boot? What happens when you set everything to "cable select?"


edit: and when it hangs on "detecting ide drives" how long do you wait? Try waiting a little longer (2 mins or so) and seeing if it goes through.

 

[fr]

That "single drive" jumper mode has messed me up a few times in the past like this. I'm suprised that wasn't it.