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| 259557 | 2004-08-08 10:00:00 | Hey guys, Just got my dad a bunch of new hardware so my brother got his old stuff (AMD 800 Duron, ASUS A7VL-VM) to replace the pee-d on hardware, and I've set it up and everything. However, the BIOS isn't picking up any boot devices. The floppy drive shows up but the CDROM and the hard drive dont. Everything to do with master and slave is set up correctly - hdd on primary IDE, top ide plug, hdd on master, and cdrom on secondary ide, top IDE plug, cdrom set to master. However its still not booting from anything. I tried clearing the CMOS but the jumpers have gone AWOL, I checked the manual and they are not where the manual said they are, and I cannot see any jumpers anywhere else labeled anything to do wih jumping such as CLRTC... Really strange. I was working fine before it was moved.... Any chance of a slight bend, or static causing this? |
willie_M (5608) | ||
| 259558 | 2004-08-08 10:48:00 | Have you checked the whereabouts of the cat? :D Have you checked all the cables to the drives? Have you tried resetting all the defaults (within the BIOS, not the jumpers) for the BIOS or pulling out the CMOS battery for a while? |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 259559 | 2004-08-08 10:50:00 | oh... btw, heres the manual... www.asus.com |
willie_M (5608) | ||
| 259560 | 2004-08-08 10:54:00 | oh yeah sorry... I forgot to say I killed the power and removed the cmos battery for about 5 mins... The suspect was asleep on the beanbag the whole time.... All the cables are fine... I am using slightly newer cables but a 133/166 ide cable wouldnt stop a 66/100 drive working... right? |
willie_M (5608) | ||
| 259561 | 2004-08-09 00:28:00 | Try going back into BIOS and selecting master ide again. Make sure its on AUTO go into the AUTO bit and ESC. See if the make of the hdd shows up and likewise with the CD. It SHOULD or usually does show the make of whatever once you press ESC, after re-selecting AUTO. Then save the BIOS settings. Make sure also to put the battery back and make sure the red line on those cables are connected to pin 1 of the IDE connection on the motherboard. | Spacemannz (808) | ||
| 259562 | 2004-08-09 00:39:00 | >Make sure its on AUTO go into the AUTO bit and ESC. See if the make of the hdd shows up and likewise with the CD. It SHOULD or usually does show the make of whatever once you press ESC, after re-selecting AUTO. Then save the BIOS settings. Make sure also to put the battery back and make sure the red line on those cables are connected to pin 1 of the IDE connection on the motherboard. Yeah, I know... but it doesn't. It just sits there saying auto. On mine and my dads PC it says the model number of the hard drive but on this it doesn't. |
willie_M (5608) | ||
| 259563 | 2004-08-09 00:41:00 | Another suggestion, try seeing if the BIOS detects the HDD wihile it is the only device attached. (disconnect CD ROM). It has been known for a failure of an IDE device, to cause this symptom. | Pheonix (280) | ||
| 259564 | 2004-08-09 00:41:00 | A silly question but you did connect power to both didnt you lol. Some people do connect everything up and do forget the power |
Spacemannz (808) | ||
| 259565 | 2004-08-09 03:03:00 | If it's reporting [Auto] and nothing else, it hasn't detected the drive. Make sure you haven't accidentally set its type to [CD], which can stop it from looking for HD types. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 259566 | 2004-08-09 06:11:00 | Is this drive already formatted? If you look at page 47 of the mobo manual, it has a comment about HDD's that have already been formatted on previous older machines might not have the parameters detected correctly. It suggests that the drive parameters be entered manually under User Type HDD. You should find the correct parameters printed on a label on the HDD. See if this helps. |
Jen C (20) | ||
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