Summary: Have you tried the drive by itself or in another machine? It alsost sounds like it could be a bad drive. I have seen more than one board have a dead I...
Summary: This is a new computer being built. The specs are: MB: ECS k7vta3 CPU: AMD Duron 1.6 HD: WD 80GB CDRW: Lite-On 52x32x52x RAM: Crucial 256mb DDR 2700...
Summary: The 2nd ide channel is only disabled in the BIOS when I am NOT trying to get it to work. By now I have pretty much given up on it and have been using ...
Summary: Hi everyone, I've just updated my CPU, and I'm very happy with it, but I've found out that my hard drives are really slow on this computer, to the poi...
Summary: "Hooking an DVD or CD with HD would slow the the HD to the speed of CD,DVD" Not true. A cd/dvd drive that operates at 52X max will not slow down a HDD...
Summary: I have an old computer and I am trying to install a CD-RW. I have never taken this computer apart before. I discovered that the manufacturer had ins...
Summary: I am trying to install my old ATAPI ZIP drive into my new computer, which has two CD drives (DVD and CDRW), both on the secondary IDE channel. I'd lik...
Summary: It is better to have the harddrives separated. I would suggest the Boot/OS HD on IDE 0 as the Master only and the other two drives on the secondary I...
Summary: On my PC, the Primary IDE channel is set for "DMA mode if available. The secondary IDE channel controller said PIO mode on both devices, one is a CDRO...
Summary: I just got a used computer, that used to be a network server. I had Windows 2000 Pro just installed 2 days ago on a brand new hard drive. I tried to h...
Summary: I just noticed in the MB manual that if I enable SATA I will lose one of the IDE Channels also that Hot Plug support is not available with this MB. 1....
Summary: Hi! What would be the best approach to set up 2 HDs, CDROM and CDRW on 2 IDE channels? I think of to set both HDs as Masters? Or to set CDRW as a Mast...
Summary: I had a problem lately booting a PC returned from a client. Although I think I have it fixed, I would like any input on the things I found. Even befor...
Summary: Hi, I recently put in a CD burner and have that attached to my harddrive. So I put my Cd-ROM stand alone as master. It does not detect the CD-ROM no m...
Summary: Im trying to put a third hard drive into my dell. But it wont detect anything on the second channel. With my current setup I have 2 hard drives in t...
Summary: I have an older packard bell 233 mhz, 128mb, running W2K Svr as a DHCP server. I changed the CMOS battery recently, after that the HDD was not being r...
Summary: Most modern hard drives are either ATA66/ATA100/ATA133. Most modern CD/DVD/CDRW's are either ATA33 or slower. Two drives on the same IDE channel work...
Summary: This isn't really a dilemna yet, but I want to ensure that it doesn't become one. Assuming all my jumper settings are correct, will altering the IDE C...
Summary: IDE channel 1 no 80 connection cable installed. That's the message I get when the PC I just built posts. I'm not sure what this is attributed to, coul...
Summary: I'm having a weird problem. I've had my motherboard for a couple years now and its worked no problem. Then i was having problems with the computer not...
Summary: I have two identical motherboards for my favorite old laptop, one has a failed DC jack and the other a bad IDE controller for the HD. Tried putting on...
Summary: I think the IDE connectors on my motherboard are bad. BIOS will not recognize the hard drive. I tried the hard drive in another computer and it work...
Summary: "Does jumper settings on IDE devices matter?" yes. Make sure the HD is master and CD is slave. I don't think you can use a raid slot to boot one hard...
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