Installing 2nd HD Prob

[Shirl]

Hi

I use Windows XP Pro.

Its ever since i put in a new 2nd HD and Graphics Card, so i think its the
Hard Drive.

I put in a Samsung SP0411N (device manager says)
40GB

I tried it as a Primary Slave and
Secondary Slave

But when the computer loads from 'cold' it loads the BIOS TWICE, first time
it finds the HD and all looks good, then it starts to loads windows XP (the
loading comes up) THEN it loads BIOS AGAIN and showing slave as not
detected.

But when it eventually get to windows, it shows the drive there in my
computer and i am using it.

I did format it in that NTFS or whatever its called, and even tried
formatting it to FAT32 what it is now and still does the same.

I used the XP Pro computer Management thingie programme to format the drive
and make it a volume.

WHATS WRONG

Anyone know what i can do?
It sounds like the HD and not the Graphics Card.

I put the jumpers on HD to Slave, as it shows dont put any in as its a
slave.

So annoying, takes even longer now to load up

Just for info thou the graphics card is a 256MB Geforce 5500 oc which was
new to.

Shirl

 

[Guest]

Are you sure you're seeing the same list twice? My PC
first shows what's connected to the "plain" IDE
connectors and then clears the screen and initializes the
RAID controller BIOS, which displays a list of devices
connected to the RAID IDE connectors.

 

[Jeff]

Hi,

When you put the new hard drive in, did you also set the
primary hard drive as master? Also when you startup, go
to your bios and confirm that hard drive is there listed
under primary slave. If you have 2 IDE channels on your
motherboard, you can set the new hard drive on the second
channel with the default jumper settings, then in your
Bios you should see primary master and secondary master.

Jeff