NO HARD DRIVE DETECTION

[clarke28]

COMPUTER WON'T DETECT HARDDRIVE AND CD-ROM. I PLUGGED IN A DIFFERENT DRIVE TO TRY AND INSTALL LINUX ON IT. WHEN I PLUGGED IN THE OLD DRIVE IT WON'T DETECT IT. ALSO WHEN I HAVE CD AND HARDDRIVE PLUGGED IN, THE COMPUTER JUST SITS THERE AND DOES NOTHING. WHEN I UNPLUG THE IDE CABLE FROM THE CD ROM THE COMPUTER FIRES UP, BUT NO DETECTION OF THE HARD DRIVE. BOTH CDROM AND HARD DRIVE HAVE BEEN PUT INTO OTHER MACHINES AND WORK FINE. COULD IT BE A POWER PROBLEM GOING TO THE MOTHERBOARD?

 

[amdskip]

First of all, PLEASE DON'T USE ALL CAPS, its annoying.
Does the bios detect the drive? Is it jumpered correctly?
It could be a bad cable. What kind of system is this?

 

[clarke28]

No the bios does not detect the drive. None of the jumpers have been moved from there original position. I have swapped out the cables and they are good.

 

[jr77ok]

have you tried setting the drive to master, or cable select? I have seen some machines only like drive that are set to master, or even cable select. also try plugging the drive in by itself to see it the mobo will detect it using CS or master and go from there.

 

[Harvey]

Originally posted by: clarke28
None of the jumpers have been moved from there original position.

That could be your problem. If you have two drives on the same IDE channel, and they are both set as masters, they could conflict, and one or both may not be recognized.

I have also seen some boards that have problems detecting some drives that are set for "Cable Select." I have seen this mostly with Western Digital drives, but that could just be coincidence.

Try setting your hard drive as "Master" with nothing else on the IDE channel. Then, if you want the CD-ROM to be on the same IDE channel, try setting it as "Slave." If that works, too, then you've found the problem.

And thanks for turning off your caps lock.

 

[jr77ok]

Exactly, what Harvey said...

 

[Harvey]

Exactly, what jr77ok said...

Great minds think alike... feeble ones, too. Your post wasn't up as I was writing mine. :thumbsup: :beer:

 

[clarke28]

I don't see why I would need to change any of the master-slave settings when all I did was take the original drive out, plug a different drive in, and when I was done, took it out and plugged the original back in. And by the way I did try it.

 

[blodhi74]

do as you are told noob ... what mobo ??

 

[clarke28]

Ok I Will try it. It is a epox ep-bx3

 

[blodhi74]

since it is an old mobo, I will suggest flashing the BIOS

 

[firerock]

And did you remember to plug power back into those drives?

 

[clarke28]

Yes.

 

[Harvey]

How large is your hard drive. Your board uses a 440BX chipset, and the latest BIOS only supports drives up to 65 GB.

09/20/2000 BIOS

Added compatibility with IDE hard drives up to 65GB. Fixed exclamation mark issue on Intel 82371EB PCI to ISA bridge device in Windows ME.
Download 09/20/2000 BIOS
This article applies to:
EP-6ZXM EP-BX2 EP-BX3 EP-BXT EP-ZXA

Time for a new system. It'll be cheaper than trying to flog more performance out of this one.

 

[clarke28]

It's only a 8gb hard drive.
I realize this computer is outdated, we have other systems in the house, this one is mainly for experimentation.
It's kind of like a puzzle, I can't stand the fact that I can"t get it back running.

 

[clarke28]

fixed it. took out the jumpers on cd and hard drive. unplugged all but hard drive and booted. found the drives and replaced the jumpers. thanks for the help!