HELP! Primary Hard drive not found
Hi all
New to this forum - but hope someone can help.
At bootup i get the error message:
Primary Hard drive not found 0
Secondary (or Primary? ... cant remember) Hard drive not found 1
Im running a Dell dimension 4550 with a 420w non-dell PSU (read another thread mentioning this as a problem??... hasnt seemed to be though).
And 2 IDE-ATA Hard Drives:
Seagate 120GB (original)
Maxtor 200 GB (added)
The problem only occurred after installing the second hard drive.
The problem is easely 'bypassed' by simply turning off / on the machine. On the second boot everything is fine (every time)
Furthermore the problem only seems to occur when the machine has been powered off for a longer period (hours maybe). When restarting from windows (XP home) or shutting down and rebooting there is no problem.
It also seems to have gotten worse... at first it only happened once in a while - now it seems every time the computer has been powered off for some hours, it fails to boot the first time.
Does this not seem a bit strange???
could it be a battery problem?
... or jumper settings?
Anyone with bright ideas?
Cheers
New to this forum - but hope someone can help.
At bootup i get the error message:
Primary Hard drive not found 0
Secondary (or Primary? ... cant remember) Hard drive not found 1
Im running a Dell dimension 4550 with a 420w non-dell PSU (read another thread mentioning this as a problem??... hasnt seemed to be though).
And 2 IDE-ATA Hard Drives:
Seagate 120GB (original)
Maxtor 200 GB (added)
The problem only occurred after installing the second hard drive.
The problem is easely 'bypassed' by simply turning off / on the machine. On the second boot everything is fine (every time)
Furthermore the problem only seems to occur when the machine has been powered off for a longer period (hours maybe). When restarting from windows (XP home) or shutting down and rebooting there is no problem.
It also seems to have gotten worse... at first it only happened once in a while - now it seems every time the computer has been powered off for some hours, it fails to boot the first time.
Does this not seem a bit strange???
could it be a battery problem?
... or jumper settings?
Anyone with bright ideas?
Cheers
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