Strange IDE behavior on Intel D845GEBV2 Motherboard

[jyates]

Got a buddy how has an retail boxed Intel P4 D845GEBV2 motherboard and every
time he shuts the computer down the computer "forgets" the hard drive.
Meaning he has to enter the cmos setup and detect the drive. On a restart
(windows 98se) it never has a problem, It's just when he turned the computer
off that it won't auto detect the hard drive on boot.

He's sure he has it jumpered correctly and is using IDE port 1.

He hasn't tried my ideas yet but he did say that he had tried an older 8.4 gb WD
drive and a brand new 80gb WD drive and it acted the same on either drive.

I've told him to check the jumper on the back of the WD hard drive (I usually don't
put a jumper on WD drives when they are master and the only drive on a cable)
and he also said that he had used an older 40 pin IDE cable with it and I told him to
put the newer IDE cable that came with the MB on it.


Any more ideas from you guys?

Thanks in adavance,
Jim

 

[jyates]

TTT

 

[bozo1]

Swap the cable. If it is the only device on the cable, make sure the drive is jumped for 'single drive' as WD drives act goofy if not. If the problem still exists, try moving the drive/cable to the other IDE connector on the mobo.

 

[jyates]

Thanks for the tip.......

He did as I suggested this morning and since it was a WD drive and the only
item on the ide cable he removed the jumper completely and it detects it
correctly every time.

After trying it he said "oh yeah...now I remember.....I had another hard drive
slaved to this drive and I removed the slave drive and didn't change any jumper settings
on the main drive!

I've found that when you are using WD drives that you never put any jumpers
on when it is the only drive on the cable.

Jim