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PC won't boot up after plugging in new HDD

lozina

lozina

Lifer
I had a hard drive fail on my old PC which I use as a server, so I purchased a new one which has a 1 Terrabyte capacity.

I plug it in and now the PC will not boot anymore. It gets stuck on post code 75 which is the hard disk initialization/discovery step.

Could this be because the mobo cannot handle the size? I thought that it just wouldn't allow me to create a partition using the full capacity but would not have problem booting up...

This mobo is an Epox 8RDA6+ Pro.

The HD is a Seagate SATA drive.

I browsed the BIOS upgrades available on Epox's web site and none of them mention anything about fixing hard disk size limitations...

Edit:
Actually the drive is 1.5 Tb.
It is this one: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS 1.5TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive (bare drive) - OEM
 
At times I have had to put a jumper on SATA drives that are at 300 and the motherboard only sees 150. Without jumper the drive is unseen with jumper all is fine.
 
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