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| Thread ID: 58104 | 2005-05-22 01:58:00 | HDD and Motherboard competability | taly (5956) | Press F1 |
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| 357309 | 2005-05-22 01:58:00 | Hi there! I had quite a new, 2 years old HDD Maxtor 30 Gig and it died. 1. How can one tell what was the reason? There was one fan, in addition to CPU and Power supply fans. 2. Tried other HDD, but not all worked with my AOpen mobo. Can there be a compatability issue and how to tell? 3. Ribbon cable. One has 3 connectors the other only two. One with two worked on one computer and did not work on the other with the same HDD. Any ideas? Thanks |
taly (5956) | ||
| 357310 | 2005-05-22 02:04:00 | Most hdds should work with any mobo. No matter what brand it is. Did u configure the hdd in the BIOS, so the BIOS knows the hdd exists?? Depends on whether the ribbon had a blue connection, if the ribbon has a blue connection on one end, did u connect the blue end to the mobo? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 357311 | 2005-05-22 04:03:00 | On the ribbon cable with two connectors there is a sign for the board side. Perhaps i have put it the wrong way around. Thanks to your remark I have looked more carefully. Taly |
taly (5956) | ||
| 357312 | 2005-05-22 04:25:00 | There are two flavours of IDE drive selection. "Master/Slave" uses a cable which has all pins of the two (or three) connectors connected through. "Cable Select" has one pin of one of the drive connectors not connected. If you have only one drive (with the MA link in rather than CS) and it's on the wrong connector of a "CS" cable, it won't work. A two-connector cable hasn't got a "wrong way round". ;) It's symmetrical. It might be a CS one, with the missing wire, and the drive using MA/SL. Disks die. That's life. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 357313 | 2005-05-22 23:59:00 | Thanks Graham! :thumbs: Got it about ribbon cables. Can imagine that disks die, but still it feels unfair, especially if it is new. It hurts! ;) Seems as I have another problem. Got a second hand HDD with 3.3 Gigs, installed it and it is ok. Loaded Win XP home and it shows on properties it took 2.2Gigs, while Windows itself is just 800 Mb. Where the rest memory gone? :illogical |
taly (5956) | ||
| 357314 | 2005-05-23 00:09:00 | xp will take about 1.54gb minimum usually | drcspy (146) | ||
| 357315 | 2005-05-23 00:10:00 | after 18 months of use the windows folder in my xp installation is 4.3gb !! | drcspy (146) | ||
| 357316 | 2005-05-23 00:10:00 | 2 years is not "new" in terms of HDD life, its far from it. I have lost 4 HDD in 4 years here. You should always treat a hard drive as a temporary storage device. Hard disk manufacturers use decimal megabytes (1,000,000 bytes = 1 MB) Other software uses binary megabytes (1,048,576) in their reporting. Hence the difference. Its not "lost", it was never there. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 357317 | 2005-05-23 00:55:00 | Plus system restore will grab a hefty chunk and assign it hidden status,and the page file reserves itself another chunk.... | Metla (12) | ||
| 357318 | 2005-05-23 06:11:00 | Hi guys! Is it possible, just theoretically, that some part of the memory is damaged? What will "property" show? | taly (5956) | ||
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