Ide Troubles:(

[hubbs]

I posted this in general hardware and they isn't anyone replying barely.

My computer posts but doesnt' recognize the ide drives.

I am pretty certain I have the cables in right and I'm fairly sure the jumpers are too

What should I do?

 

[Czar]

Try going to bios and auto detect hds'

Try to boot with only one hd connected

 

[Russ]

If it an ata66 drive, make sure that the blue end of the cable is plugged in to the motherboard, and the last plug on the other end is plugged in to the master drive. If your master is a Western Digital, make sure the jumper is on if you have a slave, off if by itself.

Russ, NCNE

 

[hubbs]

Nothing seems to be working

 

[Windogg]

Some specs would help.

Either that or mail the system to me for a free 3 year evaluation.

Windogg

 

[zippy]

Hubbs, I take it my advice earlier (which was everything mentioned thusfar...cept windogg's) didn't work?

Hmmm...

Double check, triple check...?

:disgust:

 

[Impact55]

try another ide cable if possible, or switch it with the CD one. You could have slashed the wire.

 

[jkdude]

this is off-topic but you sure are getting a bunch of replies here, hehe....

 

[ltk007]

I think Hubbs got it, he was gonna try something real quick and come back if it didn't work but he has been gone for awhile...

 

[hubbs]

I think hubbs had to go somwhere
But he still didn't get it working. So I'm kinda confused and mad here.

 

[Mday]

you know hubbs, the avatar you chose looks a little like you... =)

are you sure the jumpers are correct?

are you sure the cable is not defective? <--- people rarely check this ;-)

are you sure the BIOS is configured completely?


double checking does not help if you overlook the error twice ;-)

 

[DataFly]

Are you sure the drive is plugged securely into the power supply?

 

[Windogg]

Is the computer even on?

 

[hubbs]

I'm going to work on it tomorrow when I'm more awake and not as frustrated and I will try a different cable and put the jumpers on the way they should be and change the settings in the bios to autodetect

 

[billandopus]

I was having ide secondary channel problems which seemed to conflict with my Plex for some unknown reason. Bizzare problem.

I got fed up - format c: reinstall and after a couple of hiccups the problem is now gone - i'm knocking on wood right now!

 

[Hawk]

try just using one drive...if it works, that means your jumpers are all configured to be master (or slave, whatever) and they are conflicting...I had that on my friend's today, and nothing would detect. If not, try the drives on another computer.