Hard drive problem

[inqztive]

I have 2 IDE ATA 66 drives on mobo based on kx 133. system hangs sometimes while trying to write on hard drives. not reading. reset!!!! bios doesn't detect any hard drive at all!!!!!!!!!! have to power it down hard drives comes back on. happens only in ATA 66 mode. Can it be a power supply problem?

 

[michaelroark29]

To be honest, that could be lots of things,
did you try the drives on another board?
Did you try a new PS?
it could even be your IDE cables, or you walked across carpet and touched your machine..
What have you tried?, and maybe more suggestions could be passed on to you..

 

[IamDavid]

michaelroark29 is right. Could be any number of things. I sed to have this happen and I found out it was my jumper was slippin off and causing everything to freeze..

 

[inqztive]

Okay .. i tell you what all i tried. I switched the cables. switched the drives.. primary .. secondary.. master slave.. etc.. i tried with single drive only.. just one hard drive and one CD ROM..I usually touch the computer casing first.. hoping it will discharge all static then go on touching the board.. I changed the RAM.. I tried a different power supply (300w)but I didn't try the mobo.. that is kind of expensive.

 

[michaelroark29]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, and obviously not being there, you can't take my word for it... A motherboard I was screwing with 2 weeks ago, BIOS booted fine. Started Win98 setup from CD rom fine, boots off of 3.5 fine... but dies the second restart, tried 4 different Win98 disks, 2 95 disks, an NT disk, but it loads up the PNP drivers, reboots, and locks, it'll go into safe mode though,, it's a weird one, the slightest short can cause that. Advice, go to Radio Shack or somewhere and BUY A STATIC WRIST STRAP, it's not perfect, and it needs to be clipped to bare metal (and the case always plugged in for constant ground) but hopefully this will never happen to you again. you may want to find someone with an old SCSI drive and SCSI adapter, and try that... just to see if it'll go...Do you have any old school ISA IDE controllers? you may want to try that too. may be a short in the controller chip onboard....
Good Luck...
and Find a friend with lots of old spare parts, probably a small mom n pop computer store nearby... They might hook up the IDE card and/or SCSI stuff for free if they can't use it...