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Need Help Quick! Asus motherboard not detecting WD 80gb hd

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Wicked00

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Everything seems to be connected appropriately. Upon powerup, the post reporter reports that the hard drive could not be found. When I go into bios, it is not there, but once I auto detect it, it shows up. I just finished putting this computer together, and this seems to be the only problem that I am having. I already tried using a different ribbon for the hd. It is the only hd, so I have it set to master, and the cd rom is set to secondary master. Any help would be appreciated.
 
Sorry for not specifying. Its an Asus P4B533-E. I know this combination works, but I just don't know how to get this friggin motherboard to detect the hd.
 
Jumper the drive as cable select and if the bios sees it you are good to go.
 
What brand is the HDD? Some Western Digital's need to not just be set to master but to Single if they are all alone on the bus. A long time ago I almost went nuts till I found that out. I had it jumpered master but for single there are no jumpers. Tell us the brand of the HDD.


Edit, Opps. you said it was WD. Guess I missed it.


 
It's the Western Digital 80gb Special Edition hd. I will try to both, put the jumper on CS, or use no jumper at all. Man I hope this works
 
I just hooked a few 800JB's up the other day and they ran fine with NO jumper.
 
The jumpers on the WD drives can be a pain sometimes. If you check WD's site, you will notice there are a few different ways to set the jumpers. I had a WD once where I followed the manual's instruction and it wouldn't detect it so I just tried something different and it worked
 
WD HDDs need to have the jumper set to "SINGLE" or the jumper removed completely when they are the only drive on an IDE channel. Setting the jumper to "master" causes the symptoms you are seeing.

I set mine to "single" so I don't lose the jumpers in case I need them later.

 
Well, after setting the jumper to CS, everything seems to be working fine. Now the only problem the mobo is giving me is, "Hardware Monitor found an error... Enter Power Setup Menu for details" but I don't see anything in there. Also after that is done, the system starts "scanning for IDE drives" then after about 30 seconds, it says NO ARRAY IS DEFINED. Is there any way I can stop it from doing this?
 
Originally posted by: Wicked00
Well, after setting the jumper to CS, everything seems to be working fine. Now the only problem the mobo is giving me is, "Hardware Monitor found an error... Enter Power Setup Menu for details" but I don't see anything in there. Also after that is done, the system starts "scanning for IDE drives" then after about 30 seconds, it says NO ARRAY IS DEFINED. Is there any way I can stop it from doing this?
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Does your mobo have on board RAID? If so, do you have the HDD connected to one of the RAID channels?
 
Originally posted by: AmusedOne
Originally posted by: Wicked00
Well, after setting the jumper to CS, everything seems to be working fine. Now the only problem the mobo is giving me is, "Hardware Monitor found an error... Enter Power Setup Menu for details" but I don't see anything in there. Also after that is done, the system starts "scanning for IDE drives" then after about 30 seconds, it says NO ARRAY IS DEFINED. Is there any way I can stop it from doing this?
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Does your mobo have on board RAID? If so, did do you have the HDD connected to one of the RAID channels?
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It does have on board raid, but I didn not have it hooked up to it.
 
Originally posted by: Wicked00
Originally posted by: AmusedOne
Originally posted by: Wicked00
Well, after setting the jumper to CS, everything seems to be working fine. Now the only problem the mobo is giving me is, "Hardware Monitor found an error... Enter Power Setup Menu for details" but I don't see anything in there. Also after that is done, the system starts "scanning for IDE drives" then after about 30 seconds, it says NO ARRAY IS DEFINED. Is there any way I can stop it from doing this?
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Does your mobo have on board RAID? If so, did do you have the HDD connected to one of the RAID channels?
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It does have on board raid, but I didn not have it hooked up to it.
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Simply disabled the onboard RAID in the BIOS.
 
Hmm, I haven't seen a setting for that, but I'll check it out asap. That is my only problem... and its a pretty big one since it causes startup times to be about 45 seconds longer than necessary.
 
Page 2-23 of your manual:

RAID Setting (3 pin RAID_SW) (on RAID models only)

This jumper allows you to enable or disable the onboard PRI_RAID and SEC_RAID connectors. Keep thye default setting (pins 1-2) if you wish to use RAID configuration. Set pins to 2-3 if you wish to disable the connectors.
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I hate to say it, but RTFM. 😀
 
You sir, deserve a million dollars. Thank you everyone for helping out. I knew it had to be something small. Man, now only to defrag, and start filling up this 80giger, with many many useful programs (NOT!) lol It'll probably be full of porn in about a month J/k

Thanks Again for all the help!

Danny
 
Originally posted by: Wicked00
You sir, deserve a million dollars. Thank you everyone for helping out. I knew it had to be something small. Man, now only to defrag, and start filling up this 80giger, with many many useful programs (NOT!) lol It'll probably be full of porn in about a month J/k

Thanks Again for all the help!

Danny
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You're welcome.

Of course, you could always buy a second WD 80GB drive and set them up in RAID-0. 🙂 I have four 100GB WD1000JBs in RAID-0. It's very nice 🙂
 
I ran Bootvis on the new system and its up and ready to go in approx. 22 seconds. The only error I keep getting now in bios is something that reads, "Hardware found an error... Enter Power Management menu for details" When I go into hardware management, I don't see anything out of the ordinary. On the contrary, everything seems perfectly fine. All the voltages, etc. are right where they should be, so what I did was disable error reporting so that it would bypass that error. Anyone know what could be causing this minute problem?
 
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