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February 1st 04, 04:30 PM
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Computer bios does not detect hard drive
I have a Micron Millennia, 450 M Proc/ 128M ram, circa 1999, Samsung
Voyager 6 Plus 8.4GB hard drive (all hardware and op sys original). Recently,when booting, the pc will rarely detect the hard drive (primary master), and cd-rom (secondary master) and proceed to load Win 98SE just fine. Most times it fails to detect the hard drive but still sees the cd-rom. I substituted with known good hard drive but problem persists. Also unplugged cd-rom from secondary ide controller and plugged hard drive into this port to eliminate the controller as the culprit. Still can't see the hard drive as secondary master. Anybody have a suggestion?? 
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February 3rd 04, 12:39 AM
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Sounds like your motherboard is failing.
-- DaveW "Joel Spiegel" wrote in message om... I have a Micron Millennia, 450 M Proc/ 128M ram, circa 1999, Samsung Voyager 6 Plus 8.4GB hard drive (all hardware and op sys original). Recently,when booting, the pc will rarely detect the hard drive (primary master), and cd-rom (secondary master) and proceed to load Win 98SE just fine. Most times it fails to detect the hard drive but still sees the cd-rom. I substituted with known good hard drive but problem persists. Also unplugged cd-rom from secondary ide controller and plugged hard drive into this port to eliminate the controller as the culprit. Still can't see the hard drive as secondary master. Anybody have a suggestion??
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February 7th 04, 03:06 PM
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Couple of suggestions:
1). Go into the BIOS and 'detect the hard drive' and save the settings, so that the BIOS is not set to Auto, and does not have to search for the drive each time the machine starts. 2). Update the BIOS so that it can detect more recent hard drives. Best regards Peko "DaveW" wrote in message news:R4CTb.80100$U%5.430613@attbi_s03... Sounds like your motherboard is failing. -- DaveW "Joel Spiegel" wrote in message om... I have a Micron Millennia, 450 M Proc/ 128M ram, circa 1999, Samsung Voyager 6 Plus 8.4GB hard drive (all hardware and op sys original). Recently,when booting, the pc will rarely detect the hard drive (primary master), and cd-rom (secondary master) and proceed to load Win 98SE just fine. Most times it fails to detect the hard drive but still sees the cd-rom. I substituted with known good hard drive but problem persists. Also unplugged cd-rom from secondary ide controller and plugged hard drive into this port to eliminate the controller as the culprit. Still can't see the hard drive as secondary master. Anybody have a suggestion??
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#4
February 8th 04, 12:39 AM
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Try a new ribbon cable.
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