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| Thread ID: 63746 | 2005-11-21 18:40:00 | Randomly Wont Find Harddrives | nathan23h (6782) | Press F1 |
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| 406428 | 2005-11-21 18:40:00 | I've been running 2 Harddrives for awhile now (Master & Slave) The master installed with XPPro & the slave just has files on it. I went down to it the other night and the computer had rebooted and couldnt find the harddrives, i checked in the bios and none were listed. After restarting several times every now & then it would find the hard drives & boot up but the computer would run slow. So i unplugged the slave and the computer seemed to work fine but after leaving it for an hour it had restarted and couldnt find the harddrive again. Any ideas what is wrong? |
nathan23h (6782) | ||
| 406429 | 2005-11-21 18:52:00 | Try changing the IDE cable. Or make sure the cable is plugged in properly. What kind of ide cable is connected? 40 wire or 80 wires (this had a blue connection, on the mobo end). If you're using 80 wire, is the blue connector connected to the mobo? I take it, you remembered to jumper both hdd's to master and slave, not just change the ide master/slave in the BIOS to AUTO? What version of Windows is installed? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 406430 | 2005-11-21 19:15:00 | Yes, both are jumpered correctly. This was working fine for 3-4months but all of a sudden changed for no apparent reason. All cables are plugged in etc. Not sure if its a 40/80 wire it was just a standard PC Company cable with a DSE adapter. |
nathan23h (6782) | ||
| 406431 | 2005-11-21 19:21:00 | Sick motherboard.... | pctek (84) | ||
| 406432 | 2005-11-21 21:12:00 | Sick motherboard.... Hmm, don't say that. I might try boot it up using another motherboard see if it works then , i guess if it does it is the motherboard. The other thing i noticed on startup when it comes up with the hard drives and lists them when it listed them it would be all messed eg: Maxtor15879 *!^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It had all those little up arrows after the name |
nathan23h (6782) | ||
| 406433 | 2005-11-21 22:09:00 | it will not boot if you hook up this hdd to another mobo, the drivers are different. you could slave it though | Prescott (11) | ||
| 406434 | 2005-11-21 22:33:00 | it will not boot if you hook up this hdd to another mobo, the drivers are different. you could slave it though It will boot - of course Windows will immediately want to update the drivers.... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 406435 | 2005-11-22 04:18:00 | Go to Control Panel*Administrative Tools*Services. Check that the logical Disk manager is on Automatic and has started. This service is no good on Manual sometimes it dosn't start. As I found out the hard way. | i-gordon (962) | ||
| 406436 | 2005-11-22 04:40:00 | Umm. This might be serious. Or not. Look for simple things first. You've already done the IDE cable. ;) Check that the power cord is plugged in firmly to the PSU. (Yes, the power cord to the whole box :D). If it is fed from a multi-socket strip, make sure its plug is firm in the socket. Has Windows the right time and date when it does start up? (That little lithium cell which keeps the clock going, and sometimes keeps the BIOS's settings, including the disk information, might be dead or dying). Try a Scandisk on the disks ... the scrambled identification data does look a bit scary. |
Graham L (2) | ||
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