New MoBo won't recognize second hard drive

[girlgeek]

In the process of upgrading from a Celeron to a P4, I've run into a problem I can't fix. I've got a Gigabyte GA-81PE1000-L mobo with a P4 2.6G processor, with two 40G Maxtor IDE hard drives. Everything is working great, except the secondary hard drive. The BIOS only shows the primary drive, and won't detect the second. I've swapped cables, power connectors, and jumpers, but no go. Any suggestions?

 

[Zepper]

Do you have the jumpers set properly on the drives - either Master/Slave or CableSelect? If you have a proper 80-wire/40-pin cable, it's easiest to just set both drives to CS and connect the one you want to be master to the end connector and the one you want Slave plugged to the middle connector. The cable must also have the proper connector plugged into the mobo and it is usually blue (middle is gray, end is black). Drives often won't work if the cable is plugged in the wrong way around.
.bh.

 

[kursplat]

are both drives on the same IDE ? (sounds like it ) have you tried it on the second IDE , if not ? also are you sure your power supply is up to everything. that p4 is probably drawing a little more . what else are you using ? you could also disconnect the optical drive(s) and pull the PCI cards (if any) to help lower the power load.
good luck and welcome to ANANDTECH

 

[girlgeek]

Success!! I disconnected all but the two IDE drives, and still no joy on the slave. I took it to another computer, just to be sure the drive was good, and it was. So I hooked up everything except the slave, got a disk error message, wouldn't boot to the OS. Turns out the power connector I had used this time for the master was the one I had been using for the slave - no good - duh!. Found a good one, and now everyone's present and accounted for. Work's done, I can devote my life to URU...