HD failure or currupt BIOS?

[Giacomo1234]

New computer, modern gigabyte motherboard SINXP1934, Western digital WD600JB 60GB hard drive. System hangs before asking for boot disk (no OS yet). the message is 'veryfing DMI pool data....'. CMOS recognises all hardware with the exeption of the cylinder (28000) for the hard drive which is well over the specs given by Western Digital (around 16000). Changing the HD specs in CMOS manually to the correct cylinder automatically sets drive capacity to a miserable 8.4 GB(??). Tried resetting CMOS but no result. Tried changing boot disk order, if i put CD ROM before the HD the system boots but hangs on agreement of the Windows XP terms and conditions. Awaiting another HD to check weather it may be the probelm. Would i be corect in saying the HD is at fault? or could it be the motherboard????

 

[Comtech]

Jumper it as CS.
Count the wires in the cable, it must be 80 wire to jumper it CS.
If you only have a 40 wire, then it should work, although I would get an 80 anyhow.

Cheers,
Jim

http://members.cnx.net/reboot/

 

[Giacomo1234]

do you mean that if the ribbon has 80 wires then it is cable select?

 

[Comtech]

Yes.

Cheers,
Jim

http://members.cnx.net/reboot/

 

[Giacomo1234]

nevertheless it makes no dfifference
what aabout the memory could that have anything to do with the problem im having?

 

[Giacomo1234]

Problem is still unsolved!!??!!??

 

[wolluf]

Memory? yes - possibly. You've got a hardware problem of some kind - need to eliminate problem candidates (I'd start with memory).