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| Thread ID: 58810 | 2005-06-12 22:51:00 | Seoncdary Hard Disk Fail error when booting | jimma (2164) | Press F1 |
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| 363419 | 2005-06-12 22:51:00 | I had to replace a stick of RAM in one of my computers, which was fine, however, when the PC started up after that, I started getting the error "SECONDARY MASTER HARD DISK FAIL". The CDROM was on the secondary IDE cable, so I thought might have been it, and moved to the primary slave. So now the HDD is the primary master. Fine. The CDROM is the primary slave. Fine. There is nothing on the Secondary cable, and yet it still boots up and gives me that error. I checked the Phoenix/Award Site, and their comment was "POST detects an error in the primary slave IDE hard drive." Useful eh. Any ideas how I might fix this? Preferably without having to replace the motherboard. |
jimma (2164) | ||
| 363420 | 2005-06-12 22:54:00 | Check the jumper settings on the drives and see if you can get them to auto detect from within the bios | Overdrive_5000 (4950) | ||
| 363421 | 2005-06-13 00:10:00 | I wouldnt put a cd on the sam ide connection as a hard drive . It can slow things down . Put the cd back on the secondary master, or slave . And change its jumper to either master or slave . And configure it in the BIOS to either Secondary master or slave . Change the bootdisk in the BIOS to the hard drive, and take out any cd's that are in the cd rom . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 363422 | 2005-06-13 01:32:00 | The jumpers on both drives are set to "Cable Select" The only reason the CDROM is on the primary cable, is so that I can get it to work. Normally it would be the secondary master, which is not good to me at the moment. Its booting fine, except I get that error. |
jimma (2164) | ||
| 363423 | 2005-06-13 02:36:00 | Put them on master on slave. Cable select doesnt always work. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 363424 | 2005-06-13 02:53:00 | Cable select "always" works . Master/Slave "always" works . If the drives are jumpered correctly, and the correct cable is used . "Cable Select" means just that: drive selection depends on having the proper cable . "Master/Slave" uses a standard IDE cable with all pins on all connectors wired . A CS cable bas one wire broken between the "master" and "slave" connecctors . That's how the drives know which one is being selected . But this error started after changing a memory stick . What happens if the new stick is removed? When an error "just" starts happening, always look at the last thing changed in hardware or software . Sometimes, even just opening the box seems to cause a problem . ;) Often a cable (nothing to do with what is being changed) is disturbed . It's very hard to unplug a 40 pin connector deliberately; it's amazingly easy when you don't intend to . :( |
Graham L (2) | ||
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