BIOS hard drive problems

K

ken.walden

I have a computer I was working on putting together. It has a new
M863G motherboard with a AMD Thunderbird processor. However, I have
not been able to get it to recognize any hard drives. It recognizes
the CD-ROM, but ihas not recognized the 8 gig and 60 gig drives I have
put in it. Both of these drives are usable and recognized in other
systems. However they do not show up at all in the BIOS screens. I
believe I have the jumpers set correctly to Master. Can you give me
any more ideas of things to try that would make them visible?

Thanks,

Ken Walden
 
C

Chris Hill

I have a computer I was working on putting together. It has a new
M863G motherboard with a AMD Thunderbird processor. However, I have
not been able to get it to recognize any hard drives. It recognizes
the CD-ROM, but ihas not recognized the 8 gig and 60 gig drives I have
put in it. Both of these drives are usable and recognized in other
systems. However they do not show up at all in the BIOS screens. I
believe I have the jumpers set correctly to Master. Can you give me
any more ideas of things to try that would make them visible?

Thanks,

If they are western digital, a single drive should be set as such, not
master. Otherwise try a different cable.
 
J

Jan Alter

Have you tried just detecting one drive at a time, changed cables? Can you
feel it running and getting power? And additionally are you sure you have
the cable connected to the mb with pin #1 in the right orientation? Lots of
mbs these days don't make it terribly easy to determine where #1 pin is.
Last, are you sure about the jumpering and that it's correct. Try master
jumpering first.
 
K

ken.walden

I've been doing one hard drive at a time. I know the cables are all
right because I've used the same IDE cable and power plug as I do for
the CD-ROM. That is detected fine. I've tried all different jumper
settings and it doesn't seem to make a difference. I would have to
assume that the hard drive is dead, but that doesn't seem likely. The
hard drive I'm currently using came straight out of a working computer,
it's a 8 gb quantum. The other hard drive was a 60 gig that I couldn't
get working in this computer and put straight into another computer in
which it works. Very strange.
 

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