What about the power cable to the drive. Perhaps the connector or wire is no good. Can you try another one from the power supply?
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What about the power cable to the drive. Perhaps the connector or wire is no good. Can you try another one from the power supply?
^would've been cool.
this may have already been sedOriginally posted by Smurfette@14 December 2003 - 03:20
Hold on a minute before you junk the HDD.
WTF has drive content got to do with getting to the BIOS?
It doesn't matter what is on the HDD, it should still get to BIOS.
Can you tell us what CD/DVD drives you have installed?
What about which IDE channels the devices are on, and which are master/slave?
What's the exact model of the mobo & gfx card?
HDD crap CAN mutate the bios
ati's smartGart is known 4 this (scimanAl, good call)
check the jumpers, check the ribbon cable, and last but not least, PLEASE be sure that you are NOT plugging ur HDD in as a slave with no master on the cable. thats just st00pid, and if thats what ur doing, then thats probly the source of ur shit
^would've been cool.
Good, now that we know that you know what a post test is, perhaps you can tell us if it is doing it?Originally posted by lynx+14 December 2003 - 15:32--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (lynx @ 14 December 2003 - 15:32)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Originally posted by raiserblade2003@14 December 2003 - 18:43
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Mate posting is a test it runs to check all your components are communicating with each other.If its not posting one of your parts is failing or being prevented from talking to another part like mobo>ram>cpu>devices.I know you say you've tried everything but its just got to be there some where,i'd have a fiddle in the bios and every jumper setting esp'jumpers for power related.
i knwo what a post test is. i didtn say i didnt. haven mess w/ bios yet, but jumper are set correctly so its not taht. maybe i should try reseting the cmos
If it is not doing a post test, the problem is not directly related to the hdd. It may be a power problem or something related to plugging the cable into the motherboard. [/b][/quote]
what's ur psu?
its post but it wont go to bios or anything,,,,just a stupid blank screen. hdd is connected to the master connector in ribbon cable. set to master or single in jumper. connected to eide 1 port.
well at least while i was messing around to see whats goin on w/ this, i discover my cpu jumpers is set to 100 instead of 133mhz.
well im off to do some more fiddling.
Hammer Smashed Face
i think it was already posted, but you cant have a winxp or 2000 install done on one machine and moved to another, the configs will be different, due to different hardware configs and mobos, and chipsets, etc....... xp takes a sorta "fingerprint" of the comp it was installed on, if you move that drive to another comp, it wont work right, if at all. some peeps may have pulled it off once or twice, but i have never had it work. i have 2 comps, so ive tried it.
nm, the freakin thing work now.....dont know y though. i took a spare ribbon cables and use that and suddenly it work....only it stop at the part when windows is about to load up. i still dont know why it didnt work b4, it cant be the ide cables becuz i try 2 b4 this one. and the 2 that i try work perfectly on the one im typing this up right now but y wont it work in the new pc?
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read back 2 posts.
read back two post....Originally posted by Mïcrösöül°V³@15 December 2003 - 02:43
read back 2 posts.
y do u want me to read my own postits post but it wont go to bios or anything,,,,just a stupid blank screen. hdd is connected to the master connector in ribbon cable. set to master or single in jumper. connected to eide 1 port.
well at least while i was messing around to see whats goin on w/ this, i discover my cpu jumpers is set to 100 instead of 133mhz.
well im off to do some more fiddling.
Hammer Smashed Face
sorry read my post to see if that helps, lolone page back
yea, i know that now, but what im asking is y is this ribbon cables working but the other 2 i try didnt work for my new pc. but when used on my old pc, it work fine.
btw, if you are still a bit unclear, i got the hdd to work w/ the new system after using another eide cable
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