Questions about new computer build

[Riprorin]

I just built a computer with a 1.2 GHz T-Bird, a Asus A7V mobo, an ATI Radeon LE VC, and a ATA100 30 Gig WD HD.

Couple of problems. At boot, I get message "Ultra 100 Bios is not installed because there are no drives attached". What does this mean and what's the fix?

I also have a Toshiba DVD drive. Tried to play a movie DVD and the disc wouldn't spin up past the intro. I couldn't install the close caption driver from the ATI disc (when I reboot after installing the driver, the computer hangs when updating set up). Could this be the problem?

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[sykopath79]

Make sure the hard drive is plugged in to a power connector and to the primary IDE channel. Make sure the edge of the IDE cable with the red stripe is next to the power plug on the drive. Also, make sure the jumpers on the drive are set to CS (cable select) or Single, not Master or Slave (I'm assuming you are only running the one HDD).

 

[Demon-Xanth]

It means:

Because there is no hard drives on the RAID controller, the BIOS was not installed into memory. (there is no reason to) There's nothing wrong with your configuration nor is there anything wrong with your hardware (unless the primary controller doesn't do UDMA/100)

This happens with SCSI controllers.

 

[DJFuji]

the thing with the ata100 controller simply means that theres no reason for it to load the ata100 drivers because there is no ata100 drive attached to those ide channels. If you have an ata100 hard drive attached to it, then there's something wrong. Otherwise its no problem. I have a dvd drive attached to mine and it gives the same error because the dvd is only ATA-33.

 

[DJFuji]

sykopath: ata100 with 80 pin cables don't have to be jumpered as cable select, right? It kind of sounded like you had to do that from your post. I realize that the ata100 cable says to connect master to one side and slave to the other, but ive interchanged them and jumpered manually, (master and slave) and it doesn't seem to make a difference. Is there some reason one side of the cable is specified as master?