Recently, my freind tried powering his PC and it would not power up.... after some self diagnose, Irealized that his Power Supply was not producing any power output thus we replaced it and Walla!! it worked.
Now the second part, the BIOS did not detect any HD to boot from when the HD is attached with all cables tight. We did not even mess with the HD cables when replacing the power supply. When I enter the SETUP, all I can see in the drive config was the floppy.
Primary Master - Unidentified Drive
Primary Slave - Unidentified Drive
Secondary Master - Unidentified Drive
Secondary Slave - Unidentified Drive
So, what I did was to put all of these drive config to AUTO and restarted the machine and yeat did not detect my Hdrive but detected the CD-ROM.
Primary Master - CD-ROM
Primary Slave - Unidentified Drive
Secondary Master - Unidentified Drive
Secondary Slave - Unidentified Drive
I checked the power output to the Hard Drive and also heard the drive was spinning on initial startup but still there was no luck. I took the HD out and used to as a External Drive and plugged it into my laptop and it works fine... this was getting very weird..
My next step was swapping the IDE cable to see if there was a problem on the cable... I used the IDE cable from my CD-ROm and attached it to my HD and plugged it into the MOBO and yet no success, so the cable was not the issue. I also swapped the the cable on both the IDE slot in the MOBO ... the HD is not detected but when I did the same for the CD-ROM, it was detected.
My following step was to remove the CD-ROM and just have the HD connect to the IDE slot and yet no luck..
Finally, out of the blues I decided to connect the Hard Drive as a slave to the CD-ROM (* The jumper on both CD-ROM and HD was Cable Select) The BIOS detected it
Primary Master - CD-ROM
Primary Slave - Hard Drive
Secondary Master - Unidentified Drive
Secondary Slave - Unidentified Drive
But still it was not able to boot to XP directly until or unless I press F1 because it says
"Secondary Master Drive is missing"
"Press F1 to continue"
"Press F2 to enter setup"
When I pressed F1, it started loading Windows... this is very weird.. I had the Boot Seq setup to choose the HD first...
Any ideas on whats happening here... is the Hraddrive gone bad.. which is impossible.. cause I tried a a different HD on the MOBO and it was the same result...
Could it be the IDE slot in the MOBO?? BIOS Needs reflashing???
Any Ideas would be highly appreciated..
This is DELL Machine with P4
Now the second part, the BIOS did not detect any HD to boot from when the HD is attached with all cables tight. We did not even mess with the HD cables when replacing the power supply. When I enter the SETUP, all I can see in the drive config was the floppy.
Primary Master - Unidentified Drive
Primary Slave - Unidentified Drive
Secondary Master - Unidentified Drive
Secondary Slave - Unidentified Drive
So, what I did was to put all of these drive config to AUTO and restarted the machine and yeat did not detect my Hdrive but detected the CD-ROM.
Primary Master - CD-ROM
Primary Slave - Unidentified Drive
Secondary Master - Unidentified Drive
Secondary Slave - Unidentified Drive
I checked the power output to the Hard Drive and also heard the drive was spinning on initial startup but still there was no luck. I took the HD out and used to as a External Drive and plugged it into my laptop and it works fine... this was getting very weird..
My next step was swapping the IDE cable to see if there was a problem on the cable... I used the IDE cable from my CD-ROm and attached it to my HD and plugged it into the MOBO and yet no success, so the cable was not the issue. I also swapped the the cable on both the IDE slot in the MOBO ... the HD is not detected but when I did the same for the CD-ROM, it was detected.
My following step was to remove the CD-ROM and just have the HD connect to the IDE slot and yet no luck..
Finally, out of the blues I decided to connect the Hard Drive as a slave to the CD-ROM (* The jumper on both CD-ROM and HD was Cable Select) The BIOS detected it
Primary Master - CD-ROM
Primary Slave - Hard Drive
Secondary Master - Unidentified Drive
Secondary Slave - Unidentified Drive
But still it was not able to boot to XP directly until or unless I press F1 because it says
"Secondary Master Drive is missing"
"Press F1 to continue"
"Press F2 to enter setup"
When I pressed F1, it started loading Windows... this is very weird.. I had the Boot Seq setup to choose the HD first...
Any ideas on whats happening here... is the Hraddrive gone bad.. which is impossible.. cause I tried a a different HD on the MOBO and it was the same result...
Could it be the IDE slot in the MOBO?? BIOS Needs reflashing???
Any Ideas would be highly appreciated..
This is DELL Machine with P4
... I wish I had another system where I can tests this.. got to hook up with my other friend to see if he will allow me to use his system to check this Hdrive... Anyways thanks everyone and I will surely posts if I happen to find the solutions for this problem...