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Problems installing a secondary hard drive
I have been attempting to install a secondary hard drive on my
computer, but I am having major problems. I have an AMD 1.7 processor, 512mb ddr, I already have a 40gig drive now. I am installing a 160gig hard drive. I know all the basics, but everytime I try to boot up the computer shuts down before booting up. I rechecked the master slave settings, cable settings nothing worked. I even try to install the 160gig drive alone it still wont boot up. Do I need to upgrade my BIOS. I think Im running American Megatrends AMIBIOS now. Can someone please help me with this problem. |
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"bunker1275" wrote in message om... I have been attempting to install a secondary hard drive on my computer, but I am having major problems. I have an AMD 1.7 processor, 512mb ddr, I already have a 40gig drive now. I am installing a 160gig hard drive. I know all the basics, but everytime I try to boot up the computer shuts down before booting up. I rechecked the master slave settings, cable settings nothing worked. I even try to install the 160gig drive alone it still wont boot up. Do I need to upgrade my BIOS. I think Im running American Megatrends AMIBIOS now. Can someone please help me with this problem. It could be that your board won't support a 160gb drive but to check that you need to know the Make and Model of the board then the bios version (press pause on boot up - when you see the screen with cpu and ram listed - at the bottom of the screen should be the bios version). Make sure you use the correct jumper settings - cable select will not do. |
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bunker1275 enlightened us all with the following:
I have been attempting to install a secondary hard drive on my computer, but I am having major problems. I have an AMD 1.7 processor, 512mb ddr, I already have a 40gig drive now. I am installing a 160gig hard drive. I know all the basics, but everytime I try to boot up the computer shuts down before booting up. I rechecked the master slave settings, cable settings nothing worked. I even try to install the 160gig drive alone it still wont boot up. Do I need to upgrade my BIOS. I think Im running American Megatrends AMIBIOS now. Can someone please help me with this problem. If the computer shuts down before booting, I would check to see whether the drive is defective. Even if the size is not supported by your BIOS, it should still boot and show a drive physically present, just not with the correct size or any logical information. Try the drive in another system. If you take it to the store you bought it at, they should have no problem testing it for you, or if you bought it online, get a buddy or someone else to try it. If it has similar problems in other systems... you may have a bum drive. Wheaty |
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Wheaty nopers wrote in message ...
bunker1275 enlightened us all with the following: I have been attempting to install a secondary hard drive on my computer, but I am having major problems. I have an AMD 1.7 processor, 512mb ddr, I already have a 40gig drive now. I am installing a 160gig hard drive. I know all the basics, but everytime I try to boot up the computer shuts down before booting up. I rechecked the master slave settings, cable settings nothing worked. I even try to install the 160gig drive alone it still wont boot up. Do I need to upgrade my BIOS. I think Im running American Megatrends AMIBIOS now. Can someone please help me with this problem. If the computer shuts down before booting, I would check to see whether the drive is defective. Even if the size is not supported by your BIOS, it should still boot and show a drive physically present, just not with the correct size or any logical information. Try the drive in another system. If you take it to the store you bought it at, they should have no problem testing it for you, or if you bought it online, get a buddy or someone else to try it. If it has similar problems in other systems... you may have a bum drive. Wheaty I tried to install the 160gig drive alone it booted it one time and everytime after that it wouldnt boot up. Now I have to go into the BIOS everytime I boot up so it can read my original hard drive. I dont understand why I have go in everytime and make it recognize my original hard drive. |
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bunker1275 enlightened us all with the following:
I tried to install the 160gig drive alone it booted it one time and everytime after that it wouldnt boot up. Now I have to go into the BIOS everytime I boot up so it can read my original hard drive. I dont understand why I have go in everytime and make it recognize my original hard drive. A couple of things to try before panicking: check to be sure you have an 80Pin cable. Check that your jumper on your main drive is correct. Western Digitals don't require any jumper as a single, but Maxtors do for example. be sure that the IDE devices in your BIOS are set to Auto Detect, and not user. check the system time in your BIOS when you are in there. restart then check it again. Is it losing the time? If so, you may have a bad battery. cross your fingers Wheaty PS: If this doesn't rectify the issue, get back to me with the board make and model, BIOS revision and HD make and model, lets see what we can come up with. |
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