Bios can't detect any of my IDE drives. "HELP"

[woktheblue]

Can someone please help me with this problem. When I try booting up my computer the bios doesn't detect any of my IDE drives. Sometimes after about a good hour after leavening the computer on in the post screen, I re-boot and it picks up all the drives.
When I turn off the computer I am back to square on. Its so frustrating... I have tried auto detecting the drives and also tried manually. What comes up in the post screen is: "Verifying DMI pool data... Disk boot failure, Insert system disk and press enter".

IDE Channel 0 Master [ None ]
IDE Channel 0 Slave [ None ]
IDE Channel 1 Master [ None ]
IDE Channel 1 Slave [ None ]

Motherboard: GigaByte technology co ltd, Ga-8s661fxmp-rz
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: Award modular bios v6.00pg 09/27/04
Chipset: sis661 rev17
CPU: Celeron 2.00GHZ
Windows XP Home Edition
Nvidia Geforce 4 MX 440
WD 80gb Hard Drive
Memory: 1024mb on slot A1

Thanks Mark

 

[CrAzY_GaMeR_07]

try another ide cable
make sure its in correct
make sure the power is all the way in
try another hdd

 

[woktheblue]

already done everything you said. Had no luck friend...

 

[sPlAtOiD]

Have you reset the Bios to default.Im sure you probably did huh? Also is there an option to set your drives to IDE and SATA if so make sure its IDE. It may be a bad motherboard...

 

[HAVOC]

Is this something that just started happening, or did you resently change some sort of hardware?

My first suggestion would be to make sure the Drive Jumpers are set to the proper MASTER/SLAVE Jumper.

BUt you probably did that already.

 

[molsen]

this is exactly what my board did when the hdd controller died. have you had some random freeze-ups leading up to this?

 

[Nitestick]

probably a dumb question but are the drives new and unformatted? i don't know about not detecting the drives but if they haven't been formatted you would get a message similar to that one.

 

[AnthraX]

Does your board have SATA? I've ran accross a problem where SATA is the default for IDE channels. I just change some SATA settings around and its worked.

 

[woktheblue]

AnthraX, I do have a SATA board... In the post screen when it boots up it picks up the SATA first saying they are not set to master and slave then it picks up the IDE with NONE on all the drives. Is that whatÂ’s supposed to happen if not how do I turn the SATA off? Thanks for your suggestion friend.

 

[Apokalipse]

I would suggest updating your BIOS
but it could be your IDE controller dying, like molsen said