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Thread ID: 55716	2005-03-17 21:16:00	Bios won't detect hd	blackmage (7626)	Press F1

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335219	2005-03-17 21:16:00	Hey guys, I just completely rebuilt my computer from a celeron 1.7 gb to a athlon64 3000+ in a new case. I wanted to keep the parts that were still useful, such as my GeForce and my two hard drives and two optical drives. However, my bios appears to have a problem with detecting both of my hard drives. If I have both connected to the IDE cable, the bios only detects my 80gig drive, which doesn't have windows installed, but has all my important files. it will only detect my 200gig, where windows is installed, if the 80 is unplugged, meaning i have a working computer, but none of the stuff I really need. Any ideas? should I flash the bios or something?	blackmage (7626)
335220	2005-03-17 21:23:00	check your master/slave jumber settings for starters.	tweak'e (69)
335221	2005-03-18 01:54:00	Did you change the motherboard? If so, check its manual for what flavour of IDE device selection it uses. If it's "CS" (Cable select) and you have a standard "master/slave" cable and the drives are set MA and SL ( or vice versa) you will have problems. A CS cable is "missing" one wire on one side of the middle connector. I don't know how obvious that would be on an 80 wire cable. I think a MB would come with the appropriate cable so just make sure that the drives are set correctly. No you shouldn't flash your BIOS. :( That's something you do (with great care) if a new version of the BIOS software is documented to fix a problem which you have. IDE drive select is unlikely to be a problem that any BIOS would have -- that's so basic that it would be thoroughly checked.	Graham L (2)
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