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PC not seeing HD on startup
Can anyone shed any light on this?
On startup the pc fails to find the hard drive. I have to enter setup to detect the drive then exit saving the changes - all is then fine until the machine is next turned off. All bios and cache settings are enabled. I thought it may have been the battery which i have replaced but it still happens. Could it be anything to do with the RAM in the machine or am i barking up the wrong tree? MB is K7S5A running WinXP Professional Thanks in advance. |
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"mark davies" wrote in message
... Can anyone shed any light on this? On startup the pc fails to find the hard drive. I have to enter setup to detect the drive then exit saving the changes - all is then fine until the machine is next turned off. All bios and cache settings are enabled. I thought it may have been the battery which i have replaced but it still happens. Could it be anything to do with the RAM in the machine or am i barking up the wrong tree? MB is K7S5A running WinXP Professional Thanks in advance. I think you will find this is a known fault on some K7S5A's. I gave up with the damn things after being bitten by three of 'em. The only other possibility is that you have the reset CMSO jumper in the wrong position. SteveH |
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I had a similar problem with an old western digital drive and a DFI
motherboard. If the HD takes a long time to boot, the CMOS may time-out and miss it. If you can set the search time for the IDE devices in the CMOS, set this to the largest setting. There was a trick of removing one of the pins or cutting a wire on the 80 ribbon cable connector, which made the HD appear to be always on. I gave up and just used a newer drive in my motherboard. Also, if you manually configure the drive according to the specs as opposed to using auto recognition in the CMOS, you could also better your chances. Best wishes, Pete "SteveH" wrote in message k... "mark davies" wrote in message ... Can anyone shed any light on this? On startup the pc fails to find the hard drive. I have to enter setup to detect the drive then exit saving the changes - all is then fine until the machine is next turned off. All bios and cache settings are enabled. I thought it may have been the battery which i have replaced but it still happens. Could it be anything to do with the RAM in the machine or am i barking up the wrong tree? MB is K7S5A running WinXP Professional Thanks in advance. I think you will find this is a known fault on some K7S5A's. I gave up with the damn things after being bitten by three of 'em. The only other possibility is that you have the reset CMSO jumper in the wrong position. SteveH |
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"mark davies" wrote in part:
Can anyone shed any light on this? On startup the pc fails to find the hard drive. Someone suggested the drive doesn't ready fast enough. Have you tried hitting the reset button after the POST is almost complete? I do that as a work-around in a similar situation. The POST doesn't find the drive initially, but by the time the POST is done the drive is actually ready. Hitting the reset button causes POST to run again without powering off the drive, so the drive is seen. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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"mark davies" wrote in part:
Can anyone shed any light on this? On startup the pc fails to find the hard drive. Someone suggested the drive doesn't ready fast enough. Have you tried hitting the reset button after the POST is almost complete? I do that as a work-around in a similar situation. The POST doesn't find the drive initially, but by the time the POST is done the drive is actually ready. Hitting the reset button causes POST to run again without powering off the drive, so the drive is seen. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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