HDD not detected???

[BeLikeMiKe716]

so i have this dell computer sitting around that's fairly new but the weird thing is that when i try starting it it would go into bios and such but then tells me that it can't detect any harddrive. I switched around hdds and they work fine in my external enclosure but it wont show up on the dell at all. Do you think this is a motherboard problem? I checked and switched around the wires also. thanks for your help people

 

[mangoluvr]

I'm not sure if this will work but maybe worth a try. The jumper on the back of your hard drive may need to be moved to master if u have the cable plugged in primary slot. Or in my case, it was a western digital and all i had to do was simply remove the jumper plug and voila it recognize my hard drive. hope this helps

 

[BeLikeMiKe716]

nope its not that either i checked....

 

[ZYFER]

are any optical drives being detected? if so, hook the hard drive up to the secondary channel to see if its an issue with the board.