Please Help, going NUTS!!!

yxqzme2yxqzme2
edited May 2004 in Hardware
i reciently received my brother hand me downs of a p4 northwood 3.0 gig cpu and an 865perl intel main board. it always worked for him and when i put it together for me it wont detect my HDDs.
i purchased a new main board an ASUS p4p800-e deluxe and still i get same results
here is wht i know and what i have done
the cdroms work
i have swaped mainboards 4 TIMES
i have done the jumpers thing, the ribbon cable changes
i have tried my HDD in brothers PC with sucess and his in mine with no luck (wont detect his either)
i tried another cpu in the main board still nothing
here is my specs

p4 northwood 3.0 ghz cpu
asus p4800-e deluxe mainboard
ati 8500dv video
sound blaster live 5.1 mp3 card
1024 meg of 3200 KINGSTON(i think) ram
120 wdc hdd
100 maxtor hdd

any help here woul;d be great cause i am out of ideas :banghead:

Comments

  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited May 2004
    Have you tried running them as cable select? Also, are you putting them on an IDE cable by themselves?
  • ClutchClutch North Carolina New
    edited May 2004
    Try just one hdd with nothing else connected to an IDE channel. The cable select that mudd suggested to would be another good start. You know the hdd works if it worked in your brothers computer.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    yxqzme2 wrote:
    i reciently received my brother hand me downs of a p4 northwood 3.0 gig cpu and an 865perl intel main board. it always worked for him and when i put it together for me it wont detect my HDDs.
    i purchased a new main board an ASUS p4p800-e deluxe and still i get same results
    here is wht i know and what i have done
    the cdroms work
    i have swaped mainboards 4 TIMES
    i have done the jumpers thing, the ribbon cable changes
    i have tried my HDD in brothers PC with sucess and his in mine with no luck (wont detect his either)
    i tried another cpu in the main board still nothing
    here is my specs

    p4 northwood 3.0 ghz cpu
    asus p4800-e deluxe mainboard
    ati 8500dv video
    sound blaster live 5.1 mp3 card
    1024 meg of 3200 KINGSTON(i think) ram
    120 wdc hdd
    100 maxtor hdd

    any help here woul;d be great cause i am out of ideas :banghead:


    Check for a BIOS update. 3.0 GHz boundary has left some BIOSes clueless, with weird results. Also, check your board and make sure you do not have HD cables plugged into IDE RAID connectors. THAT would cause a mess, until you understand RAID and the mode options in your BIOS for it. There are only two modes possible that will let you use the IDE connectors without making a RAID, and those have othr BIOS settings that have to mathc up with the choices. Try setting up box without RAID to validate system, then if you want set up RAID.

    John D.
  • ketoketo Occupied. Or is it preoccupied? Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    Yup, think John has this one - bios settings was my first instinct also.
  • yxqzme2yxqzme2
    edited May 2004
    i will try that this evening but i am curious, i had this cpu and main board running with my brothers pc no bios change has occured
    why would this change now?
    thanks for all your help :banghead:
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited May 2004
    Another thing that might be throwing you is if you are trying to run those drives with an ATA33 cable perhaps.
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