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chazmotaz

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Hello, a good friend of mine told me about the site, and when I could not find what i needed on the site, he told me to turn to you lively gents for a bit of help PC-wise.
My problem lies iwthin my motherboards recognition of the Slave and Master components. I am running an AMD Xp 2600 barton processor on a Gigabyte GA-7VT600 mobo, 512 ram at 333, and a smashing good video card, Geforce FX 5600 Ultra. I have a western digital 80gb special edition harddrive, and a Cd-rom that works.
Basically, everything boots up fine, the processor and video card and ram and floppy drive are all detected, in the bios however, it does not detect the hard drive.
I've opened up the computer, set the ribbons in their correct places and everything, im 99% sure that both the harddrive and CD-rom drive work
can someone help me?
 
Welcome to the Forums, chazmotaz 🙂 Here's my first try: check the label of the Western Digital for a "Single Drive" jumper setting, which I believe means to take the jumper cap altogether. Now put the drive on the end plug of your IDE cable (as opposed to the middle plug that's closer to the motherboard) and see if it likes the Single Drive setting. I'm assuming the hard drive is, in fact, on its own IDE cable and not sharing with the CD-ROM. 🙂 Good luck, and let us know if that didn't help.
 
Yup, as M-B said. WD is one of the few brands to have two Master jumper settings - one for stand-alone, the other when there is a slave drive present. Causes mucho tech hair pulling, and generally we have little to spare.
. Easier to set both drives to Cable Select (CS) if you have 80-wire cables. Primary goes at end, secondary goes in the middle - blue end of cable goes to mobo. Works every time.
.bh.
 
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