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Slave hard disk error - Press F1 to

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Name: zuldevil
Date: May 29, 2004 at 12:16:18 Pacific
Subject: Slave hard disk error - Press F1 to
OS: Win XP Pro
CPU/Ram: P4 1.80A GHz/768 MB DDR-R

Comment:

Here we go again.
I've just bought a buncha stuff. Woot.
Everything's working fine save for an older harddisk drive that just refused to work again. Before adding my other hardware, the harddisk was fine. But after adding all the new hardware, the harddisk just stalls.
The harddisk is set as slave, and is detected in BIOS, but not detected on POST. It gives a :
"Slave hard disk error
Press F1 to resume"
I've swapped IDE cables & power cables, but to no avail. IDE cables and power cables are confirmed working.
For those who are curious, the hardware that I bought include :
> A cheap Creative Vibra 128
> A not-so-cheap Kingston PC2100 512MB DDR-RAM
> Logitech Internet Keyboard & Optical Mouse
> 2 Chassis Fans (I've only plugged one in so far - I need a Y splitter :P)
The rest are just accessories, wrist cushions, CD-Rs, the like.
Anybody has any idea?
Much thanks.

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Response Number 1

Name: jam
Date: May 30, 2004 at 06:46:14 Pacific
Subject: Slave hard disk error - Press F1 to

Reply: (edit)

How many IDE devices & how are they configured? Don't pair up two hard drives on the same channel. They should be:
HDD/CD-ROM (primary master/slave)
CD burner/2nd HDD (secondary master/slave)

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Response Number 2

Name: zuldevil
Date: May 30, 2004 at 09:22:38 Pacific
Subject: Slave hard disk error - Press F1 to

Reply: (edit)

I paired up my Master and Slave HDDs together and my Combo drive + cd-rom drive together. I tried the other configurations, but they didn't work.
But that's not the problem. -_-

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Response Number 3

Name: name
Date: May 30, 2004 at 12:03:39 Pacific
Subject: Slave hard disk error - Press F1 to

Reply: (edit)

Once in a while, I've had some used hdd or other that JUST PLAIN would not work with some other hdd on some motherboard. Sometimes I could take one, or even both hdd's and put them on a different motherboard and they would work. Same jumpers, same configuration.
Go Figure.
I run mine with both CD's on one channel, and both hdd's on one channel. You normally don't want a burner on the same channel as your hdd, and when my burner does a "copy cd" it uses the (a) hdd for the temp image storage.

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