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I rebooted my computer and pressed the pause button and then press esc and it says i think: slave fails... and this menu pops up telling to select the drive....
I pressed esc again and windows started..
But now each time i start the computer it says
detecting slave...
detecting master...
detecting something...
detecting something...
Sounds like the drive settings within the bios are set to auto detect. Go into the bios and tell it what is on each IDE device.
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So I pressed DEL when in BIOS, but now I am not sure what to do.
Under what Tab is it? and what should I do from here?
Sorry I am don't know anything about BIOS and configuring it.
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What is the make and model of the unit?
If it is a clone the what is the maker of the bios and version number.
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Well, the bios version is v6.0.
I went to bios and then to main and saw options for primary slave, master, secondary slave, secondary master. There I didn't see the maxtor... or the st3306... hardware drives listed...
What are the disadvantages for auto detecting?
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Andrew what model of motherboard do you have? It appears that you have several master drives, several operating systems also installed? Are any of them scsi drives? Are you the same Andrew who had the 100 cpu usuage in a previous post?
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I don't know how to find the model of my motherboard.
I have 1 master drive
1 slave
1 secondary master
no secondary slaveAll my drives are within the computer none are external.
No, I only have windows 2000 installed.
Yes, i am that same Andrew.
Will auto detecting hard drives affect anything?
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No auto detect will not. Ok..
You have one master (windows 2000 installed)?, I assume that this is harddrive. A slave is your (I assume) your cd drive?
The secondary master has what operating system? I would suggest this. Change your secondary master harddrive to slave and install on the same cable (ide I assume) as your master hard drive. Change the CD drive to master and put on a cable by itself.Make sure that you have IDE 1 cable in for your harddrive and IDE2 in for your CDROM.... The motherboard should have the name stamped on it who made it. If not then there is an FCC number stamped somewhere on the board that you can look up here..http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/help.html
This will give you the make an model of your motherboard. As far as your previous post on the CPU 100 usage. I believe that you have incompatible memory in your system with the type/model of board.
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Here is the layout
I only have 2 hard disks and 1 cd rom drive.
Primary master: Hard Drive 1 (with windows 2000 system files on)
Primary slave: Hard Drive 2 (with no system files on, except i marked it active in disk management)
Secondary master: CD-ROM drive
Secondary slave: None
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