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Bios cannot see hard drive
Name: McHoffa Date: December 30, 2002 at 17:01:35 Pacific OS: none yet CPU/Ram: pentium233/128
Comment:
i am trying to put an old machine together... everything is working except it doesnt see the hard drive in bios, which is kinda a big problem... i tested the drive in a different pc and it worked, but not here.. its a 3.2 gb quantum fireball...
i checked the jumpers, and they are right.. when i put them on wrong, bios doesnt even see the cdrom, so i know that part is working... any suggestions?
Name: Topaz Date: December 30, 2002 at 17:08:07 Pacific
Reply:
Could you be putting it in a hewlett packard? An hp I worked on seemed to prefer cabel select. (It could have been the hd's preference, but may be worth a try)
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Response Number 2
Name: grungedude Date: December 30, 2002 at 17:35:08 Pacific
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Is the hard drive the only device on the cable? If so, remove all the jumpers on the hard drive; do not select master, slave, or cable select. This should work.
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Response Number 3
Name: craig Date: January 2, 2003 at 12:30:11 Pacific
Reply:
have u checked that the bios is checked to auto detect otherwise it will try and find the harddrive you had installed before
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