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: Found this forum today and decided to see if anyone can shed some light on this problem: Only used one ide channel at first because had SCSI cd. Got C...
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: Hi I have a user who bought a 80 gig hard drive and he split it into 3 partitions which worked fine. Then he made a 4th and after doing this he now ge...
Summary: I have a SCSI card that works fine. Since you can have numerous SCSI controllers I have installed a 2nd SCSI card. However it is not detected during b...
Summary: My Award BIOS v4.51 PG does not detect the IDE hard drive WD400JB. The Hard drive spins up properly. I checked the cables. In the BIOS setup the auto-...
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: Hello All, I just put in a new motherboard for my pIII 800 mhz. Upon startup It will not detect any ide drives. I have two cd-roms and two HDD install...
Summary: I recently reloaded my operating system. I used a basic windows (home edition with service pack three). However after the reload was complete and the ...
Summary: Yes, I had to reset the date and time. Both IDE channels are enabled. Yes, it is a 27GB dell hard drive. It is old but does work. The power works as i...
Summary: My computer stopped detecting my DVD-ROM and CD-RW drives, which share a cable. This problem began when I installed a second hard drive (which shares ...
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: Thanks for the help. Hope you're still on line. "hiho"; how can or where can I get the Chipset Drivers from and how would I know which ones to use. ...
Summary: Hi, I have the same problem - when I start my computer it show the message -Alert! chipset heat sink not detected, system halted. I talked to Dell ...
Summary: I am facing a problem with secondary IDE channel My configuration is: Primary Master : Hard Disk Primary Slave: None Secondary Master: CD-ROM Second...
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: I have tried installing the drive all by itself (i.e.. no other hdd or cd rom on the IDE channel). To be precise, I tried making it the primary master...
Summary: I have a 850 machine with 2 H/D's, one CD ROM and a CD writer. Current operating system is 98SE. Attempted to install 160 Gig H/D, removed 2 H/D's and...
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: I installed new hdd with my CD-RW drive and everything was just fine. Then I needed some data from another hdd and I connected it instead of my CD-RW...
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 didn't see your original post so I am not up to speed here, which is a good reason to continue posting to the original thread. From just the info a...
Summary: i have a couple dell gx260 that dont not want to detect the hard drives, try to load xp but it gets to the screen that says no hd deteted, so i try to...
Summary: My bios does not detect my cd rom it was working just fine. I hooked a new one up and still bios says unknown device and while booting it says that th...