Help. Can't get Bios to detect new Hard Disk

[BillStuck]

I have a ATA133 board and a new Maxtor 40gig ATA133 drive. I've tried every jumper setting both IDE channels and it still won't auto detect the drive. I even tried typing some bogus data instead of auto to make it think the drive was smaller then 40 gigs. (not really sure what I'm doing there) No luck.

Wierd thing is If I put my cd rom as the master and disconnect the Hard disk the bios detects the CD-rom, but if I then connect the hard disk as the slave it doesn't detect either one.

I connected an ATA100 Quantrary 20 gig drive and the bios detected it right away. I'm totally stumped. Any ideas? The bios version is dated 4/2002 so it shouldn't have any large drive limitations should it.?

All the diagnostic tools on the Maxtor web site require the drive to be recoginzed so I can't use them. also the drive make some klunking noises when it is first powered up. Klunks like when other computers I hear turn off but I read on the web its normal. Drive is spinning?

Please help because I'm totally stumpted

 

[tritium4ever]

The obvious "answer" here is that the drive is dead. Have you tried it in another system to verify this?

 

[VSEKH]

Sounds like the drive is dead since your board recognizes other hard drives.

 

[bacillus]

time to get that hdd exchanged!

 

[olds]

I assume that you used the same IDE cable for both HDD's?

 

[BillStuck]

Hi yes i tried the same IDE ribbon on two hard drives and it worked for the other one. I also took the defective one to my office and hooked it up to a test machine which didn't recognize it either. I called Maxtor and the agreed to send me a new one so hopefully it will be fixed.