Harddrive problem

[zipp080]

Alright today I built an amd64 system as stated in an earlier post. I was having problems getting it to boot, but now I finally solved the problem and got it to boot. Now my problem is with the harddrive. When I first got it to boot, it showed the 3 drives: CD rom, A drive, and the IDE harddrive. I was messing with the boot disks and after messing around abit later, I realized that my harddrive was no longer being detected. Only my A drive and cdrom were actually shown. I tried switching ribbon cables, I tried switching the power cables around. I took off the A drive completely. Everytime I boot and it goes to the BIOS, it just says "NOT DETECTED" by the IDE primary device.

Also alittle strange is that if I don't go into the BIOS or if I go into a perticular setup prog, it tells me that I failed to overclock everytime such as "YOU FAILED TO OVERCLOCK THIS SYSTEM!"
something on the lines of that, I do not know the exact wording, but on the lines of that I failed to overclock when I never even tried to overclock or know how to. Is it suppost to say this?

In the middle of my connecting and reconnecting the A drive, I left the power supply plugged into the wall, but I had the computer shut down completely. Could I of blown my harddrive up so it just isn't being detected anymore?

 

[micker377]

I doubt that you hurt the hard drive, I've been known to plug in hard drives while the system is running! Back to your problem, did you re-set the bios back to "safe" or whatever it calls the fail-safe mode? Is the "type" of drive set to auto in bios? In bios, there should be a wat to actually manually set the parameters of the hard drive. It sounds like a faulty bios, even with a 40 pin rather than a 80 pin cable the drive would still be recognized by bios.

 

[ImpetusEra]

Sounds virusy. Where did you acquire these said boot disks?

 

[zipp080]

Alright, Well I unplugged all 3 devices and just plugged in the harddrive itself. So I have a ribbon cable going straight from my harddrive into the PRIM ide slot. And I have a power cable going into it. When I boot it recognizes the harddrive.

Now When I plug in the CDROM it stops recognizing the harddrive. I used a totally seperate ribbon cable to plug in the CDROM into the SECondary ide slot. Am I hooking it up wrong I take it? Because if I unplug the cdrom, then it recognizes the harddrive; if I plug in the cdrom, then it deosnt recognize the harddrive.

 

[zipp080]

Alright, hes an easier question. I have 4 different types to plug in my 3 devices. In which should I put them.

I have


Primary Master
Primary Slave
Secondary Master
Secondary Slave

Where Should I put each of my : Harddrive, cdrom, A-drive

Currently I have my harddrive on Primary Master and its being recognized.


PS. I went into my bios settings and looked at the voltages. And the bottom 2 (5 V and 12 V) were jumping from grey to red. Is that bad? I have a 400w powersupply on it.

 

[ImpetusEra]

red sounds bad I assume. Does it show the levels dropping? Hard drive should be primary master, cd-rom secondary master. Usually IDE cables ahve 3 connectors. 2 are closer than the third. Odd one goes to mobo and the opposite end one goes to master device. Verify the colored stripe is positioned correctly. Usually closest to the power connector on a drive or you can look for a small 1 on the PCB. Sometimes it will list the higher number and not 1. Either way the colored stripe goes towards the lower number. Deffinitely could be a flaky power supply though.

 

[zipp080]

Well the ide ribbon I have hooked up the harddrive now only has 2. One going to the harddrive, other end attached to the primary slot on the motherboard. It's the only ribbon cable I could get to recognize the harddrive.

I tried the other 2 I have which do have 3 connects. One blue for the primary slot on the motherboard, 1 in the middle for the slave I guess, and 1 at the very end for the master i assume? But using either of those 2 ribbons never recognized the harddrive.

I do not understnad what you mean by verify if the colored stripe is positions correctly? What do you mean positiond correctly?

 

[ImpetusEra]

There's a stripe on one side of the cable. It has a certain orientation to the motherboard and the hard drive. Some of them have a little plastic piece coming out so it will only fit one way. Use the cable that came with the hard drive.

 

[zipp080]

Could someone message me on AIM if they could. It would be greatly appreciate to get faster help on aim. My s/n is p00rsp0rt (0's are zeros)