Biostar M7NCD Problem?

[Breck Fontaine]

Hello,

I have a Biostar M7NCD motherboard with an AMD Athlon 2100+. I
have been getting a clicking sound from my motherboard or case. I
checked both hard drives and they seem okay. No freeze ups or system
problems. I just get this clicking sound like something is trying to
turn on. I don't know if my motherboard is going or not. It sounds
like something is trying to make contact or turn on. Any advice would
be appreciated.

Thank you!


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[kony]

Hello,

I have a Biostar M7NCD motherboard with an AMD Athlon 2100+. I
have been getting a clicking sound from my motherboard or case. I
checked both hard drives and they seem okay. No freeze ups or system
problems. I just get this clicking sound like something is trying to
turn on. I don't know if my motherboard is going or not. It sounds
like something is trying to make contact or turn on. Any advice would
be appreciated.

Thank you!

Clicking is typically from mechanical devices, none of which
are on the motherboard itself as (IIRC) it doesn't even have
a fan onboard.

So I"d look at the drives again and fans. Is there any
commonality to when these noises occur? Time or temp or
boot state?

 

[Breck Fontaine]

Clicking is typically from mechanical devices, none of which
are on the motherboard itself as (IIRC) it doesn't even have
a fan onboard.

So I"d look at the drives again and fans. Is there any
commonality to when these noises occur? Time or temp or
boot state?


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Your are right Kony! My secondary drive just failed after I wrote my
previous message last night. I replaced it with a Western Digital
drive and the clicking has stopped. The only problem is the drive is
not recognized by the BIOS. I have the jumper the same exact way as
the failed drive I took out. When I have the drive hooked up the
system will not post. It freezes at detecting IDE drives. If I remove
the IDE cable from the drive it boots normally without recognizing the
secondary drive. I tried different jumper settings on the back of the
hard drive nothing works. I was thinking about locating the jumper on
the motherboard to clear the BIOS but I don't no if this is needed or
not. I am not a technician. Any more help you could give me would be
appreciated.

Thank you!

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[kony]

Your are right Kony! My secondary drive just failed after I wrote my
previous message last night. I replaced it with a Western Digital
drive and the clicking has stopped. The only problem is the drive is
not recognized by the BIOS. I have the jumper the same exact way as
the failed drive I took out. When I have the drive hooked up the
system will not post. It freezes at detecting IDE drives. If I remove
the IDE cable from the drive it boots normally without recognizing the
secondary drive. I tried different jumper settings on the back of the
hard drive nothing works. I was thinking about locating the jumper on
the motherboard to clear the BIOS but I don't no if this is needed or
not. I am not a technician. Any more help you could give me would be
appreciated.

You don't mention what your primary drive is, but I suspect
you still have one or the other's jumpers wrong.

That being a new drive, you might first try removing the
other (1st) drive from the cable, plug the end of the cable
into the new drive while it's jumpered as "Single" and run
the WD diagnostics on it to verify it's function, and
optionally do a full test on it a time or two to be sure
it's viable before storing data. Then proceed to rejumper
it for slave and place on the middle connector of the cable.

You have not mentioned particulars of the old and new drive
sizes as they relate to system bios support- if the new
drive is significantly larger and the system is a few years
old you might have issues with capacity.

 

[Breck Fontaine]

My primary drive is a Maxtor 20 gig drive. My primary slave is my
cd-rom drive. My secondary master was a Western Digital 40 gig drive
that failed, it is now a Western Digital 20 gig drive (this is the
drive that does not get recognized). My secondary slave is my
cd-burner. The new drive I replaced the failed drive with does work
because I took it out of an external hard drive enclosure I was using
it in for external storage. I thought this would be simple as far as
just replacing the drive and the BIOS would recognize the changed
drive. At this point I will just play with the jumper and see if
something works. If not I will pick up a new cheap small hard drive.
Thanks again!

You don't mention what your primary drive is, but I suspect
you still have one or the other's jumpers wrong.

That being a new drive, you might first try removing the
other (1st) drive from the cable, plug the end of the cable
into the new drive while it's jumpered as "Single" and run
the WD diagnostics on it to verify it's function, and
optionally do a full test on it a time or two to be sure
it's viable before storing data. Then proceed to rejumper
it for slave and place on the middle connector of the cable.

You have not mentioned particulars of the old and new drive
sizes as they relate to system bios support- if the new
drive is significantly larger and the system is a few years
old you might have issues with capacity.


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[kony]

My primary drive is a Maxtor 20 gig drive. My primary slave is my
cd-rom drive. My secondary master was a Western Digital 40 gig drive
that failed, it is now a Western Digital 20 gig drive (this is the
drive that does not get recognized). My secondary slave is my
cd-burner. The new drive I replaced the failed drive with does work
because I took it out of an external hard drive enclosure I was using
it in for external storage. I thought this would be simple as far as
just replacing the drive and the BIOS would recognize the changed
drive. At this point I will just play with the jumper and see if
something works. If not I will pick up a new cheap small hard drive.
Thanks again!

The BIOS should've recognized it... WD drives have a
separate "single" vs "master" jumper setting, my best guess
is that the drive was jumpered as "single" in the enclosure
and now (isn't yet) jumpered to "master". That is, assuming
it's on the end of the cable. If in the middle of the
cable, try jumping the CD-burner to master and the newly
installed WD to slave, -or- cable select for both of them.

 

[Breck Fontaine]

Thanks again Kony. I will play around with the jumper settings on both
drives. I will post back the results, thanks again.

The BIOS should've recognized it... WD drives have a
separate "single" vs "master" jumper setting, my best guess
is that the drive was jumpered as "single" in the enclosure
and now (isn't yet) jumpered to "master". That is, assuming
it's on the end of the cable. If in the middle of the
cable, try jumping the CD-burner to master and the newly
installed WD to slave, -or- cable select for both of them.


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[Breck Fontaine]

I bought a new Maxtor ATA 133 hard drive and it worked okay. I guess
the Western Digital drive I was trying to use just did not work it was
a ATA 100.

Thanks again Kony. I will play around with the jumper settings on both
drives. I will post back the results, thanks again.





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