I installed this board in a new case specifically designed for p4.
This was supposed to be an easy Saturday fix. :-)
Well I put in the new board, attached the
agp card, the ethernet card, and the sound card. Then I attached the IDE cables and the drives. I have 2 HDs (40GB/master&os), (60gb slave)(Both were recently "converted" from FAT 32 to NTFS because I added a DVD burner to the old system) on one ide cable, and a CD and DVD on the other.
They were running fine on the other board previous to this one.
Anyway When I start up the new machine, it says cmos battery low (?), then says to run setup, I do that but it says that there are no drives recognized? THats even in the auto mode, and I didn't change the settings at all, because I took the drives out with the same ide cable from the old board attached to the drives.
Same with the Cd/ Dvd.
The wierd part is that if I take the ide cable off the board the HD drives start to spin up (?). Why aren't they spinning when booting up?
Its also telling me the the secondary master (the CdDrive) is ATAPI incompatible (?) It worked fine on the other board
I haven't the slightest idea what to do.
I have changed boards before, and never had a problem like this.
Is it the board? (which is brand new), or something else? I have at least 30 GB of info I need to get to ASAP.
Any help or ideas would be appreciated!
I replaced the battery and I got as far as my C drive being recognized, but when I plug the other IDE Cable with the CD/DVD drives on it doesn't want to see anything?
Could this be caused by wires from the front panel to the board being installed wrong? I wasn't sure which was neg or pos.
The guy at work said white was neg. Then the wires were like black and a color, only one set was white and a color. SO I used black as the neg.
Help!
SEPERATE QUESTION: I have a hard drive that isn't spinning, can you recover anything thats on it? Or can I remove the cover and do something?
Want My Computer Back!
