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Hard drive not picked up
Name: dave7777 Date: October 23, 2004 at 05:09:54 Pacific OS: win 98 CPU/Ram: 256
Comment:
I have put an 80gb 2nd drive into a p3 machine, but doesn't seem to be picked up. I can see it in device manager but not in my computer. It comes up with maxtor on boot up screen as it picks up the other drives. In bios I have it set to auto but if I do a auto detect it picks up the original 20gb but hangs after detecting 80gb drive but looks like it shows that one as 9gb. I have tried all possible combinations with ide cables jumpers etc.
Name: uppercrust Date: October 23, 2004 at 05:22:26 Pacific
Reply:
the p-3 motherboard might not recognise 80 gig. you will need to download an overlay bios fooling program from the manufacturer of the drive
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Response Number 2
Name: AshTheIdiot Date: October 23, 2004 at 06:51:33 Pacific
Reply:
you need to format the HDD before windows will recognise it as a use-able Disk
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Response Number 3
Name: dave7777 Date: October 23, 2004 at 07:54:55 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks seems to be picking it up now got overlay bios program from maxtor.
Thanks again
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Response Number 4
Name: jam Date: October 23, 2004 at 08:01:47 Pacific
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I don't think you needed an overlay, you needed a BIOS upgrade. Overlay programs can be troublesome...a BIOS update is the preferred route. Also, your 2nd HDD should be installed as the 2ndary slave using an 80-wire IDE cable....
Asus A7N8X-X 1800+ @8x210mhz 512mb PC3200 Ti4200/8X 128mb WDC 60GB
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Response Number 5
Name: dave7777 Date: October 23, 2004 at 08:45:46 Pacific
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Think you could be right with the problems, pc keeps freezing now when I try to access cd writer or dvd rom.
What should I do now ?
Thanks
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Response Number 6
Name: ham30 Date: October 23, 2004 at 10:18:35 Pacific
Reply:
You might have jiggled loose the cable going to the CD/DVD drives.
Actually, I thinkit's a good idea to put your new drive on the second channel. I would suggest the following configuration for highest speed data transfers.
C: drive on primary master DVD drive on primary slave D: drive on secondary master CD/RW on secondary slave
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