Have this ever happend to anyone out there?

[vengence00]

I have a gigabyte ga-7dxr. When I boot up sometimes the board doesn't recognize my ibm 60 gig harddrive and the 27 gig maxtor slave drive. I have to reset the pc a few times before it recognizes the ibm drive but then I get primary slave disk fail. I shut down and turn it on again then every thing is kosher. I'm thinking maybe its the power suppy. I have a enermax 430 watt pws. But I have 2 harddrives a burner, the floppy, the fan for the heatsink, two 120mm fans as well as a 80mm case fan all going. should I get a 650 ps. what do you think. Any idea why this is happening. everything works fine the board isn't overclocked no stability problems. Any suggestions?

 

[neuralfx]

i dont think its the size of ur psu.. but try unhooking one of the drives, and a couple of the fans, and see what happens..
-neural

 

[OmegaXero]

Nah, I can't imagine you putting all that much of a load on a 430W PS. Can you hear both drives spin up when you turn on the computer? If one of the drives isn't powering on that should be your first sign that something isn't right. I had a problem similar to yours and it turned out to be a bad ATA66 cable. I guess those things are kind of fragile will all those tiny little wires inside. If you have a spare one you might try swapping them out. Good luck.

 

[dkozloski]

Some high performance drives take a while to spin-up and give a drive ready indication. Some BIOS's have a place to add more time, up to 2 minutes, for the drives to come on line. I have three Seagate Cheetahs in a RAID-0 and they never boot up the first try, even with quick boot in the BIOS not selected.

 

[vengence00]

I'll try changeing the cables and see what happens.