HDD are not being detected on start-up.

[Hanzou]

Whenever I boot up my Computer, everything checks out fine until it gets to "detecting IDE devices", It can find my CD-rw drive, but if I have a HD hooked up, it freezes at the detectind IDE devices stage. The HD does not seem to be spinning but the HDD light on the case stays lit. I have all the drives on cable select setting, trying them in every position using different IDE cables. The odd time it might find the Hard Drive but will freeze on booting up windows. So it sems that CD roms are detected, but not HDD. I am running this on a ASUS A7N8X Deluxe 2.0.

It seems that this all happened after installing someATI beta drivers , and then back to official released ones. Could this have anything to do with it?

 

[wfbberzerker]

try setting the jumpers to master/slave instead of cable select.

 

[mechBgon]

What brand(s) are the affected hard drives? If it's a recent-model Western Digital and it has its own IDE cable without any other drives on that cable, then jumper it for its Single Drive setting.

Of course, if the drive truly ain't spinning... then you got a problem you won't overcome with a jumper setting

 

[Hanzou]

One of the drives is a WD 80GB 8MB cache, the other is a 40GB with 2MB cache. The 80 GB one has been working in this computer for one year straight, then on one reboot it just started acting up. Il try setting the jumpers to master/slave and see what happens.

 

[mechBgon]

If either WD is on a cable by itself then use Single Drive (which means pulling the jumper cap off the pins completely).

 

[Hanzou]

Set them to single drive and the same thing happens. One thing I will correct though is that they do spin up as soon as the power is turned on, not sure of that measn anything at all though.

 

[mechBgon]

How about trying just one drive at a time? Maybe one of the two is having an issue. And clarify for me how you have two drives jumpered as Single Drive on their own cables while also having a CD drive in there, because the mobo only has two IDE channels, not three.

 

[Hanzou]

I have been hooking them up all individually to the IDE cables and cannot get them to work. The Drives seem to work fine in my other computer so I think it has to be the Motherboard.

 

[Hanzou]

Anybody got any other ideas whats wrong? I sent in a RMA request to ASUS on monday with no reply, how long do they usually take?

 

[hoym8]

I do think the problem comes from the BIOS. May be clean your CMOS setting by re-setting the relative jumpers and select opti setting from the BIOS.