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Old November 8th 03, 11:47 PM
Xavier
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Default Problem Detecting IDE Devices with NF7-S 2.0

Hey guys, I just bought an NF7-S board and am in the process of building
it. I ran into one problem, and that is with my harddrives. The motherboard
would freeze at the part that says "Detecting IDE Devices." Well, I did my
research and sure enough, it's my older Western Digital harddrives which
seem to cause problems with this board. One of them will not be detected at
all no matter how I run it (whether it be in Dual Master/Slave mode or just
Single mode). So I've tried everything I've read in different forums (mostly
playing with the jumpers) and the thing that worked for me was cutting the
first two wires on the IDE cable (the red one and the one next to it). I'm
willing to live with this if it fixes my problem, but my question is, will
having these two lines cut cause problems in the future, such as data
corruption? What do the first two wires on an IDE cable actually do? Thanks
for the help!

Xavier


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Old November 9th 03, 07:27 PM
dr_hardware
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"Xavier" wrote in message
m...
Hey guys, I just bought an NF7-S board and am in the process of

building
it. I ran into one problem, and that is with my harddrives. The

motherboard
would freeze at the part that says "Detecting IDE Devices." Well, I did my
research and sure enough, it's my older Western Digital harddrives which
seem to cause problems with this board. One of them will not be detected

at
all no matter how I run it (whether it be in Dual Master/Slave mode or

just
Single mode). So I've tried everything I've read in different forums

(mostly
playing with the jumpers) and the thing that worked for me was cutting the
first two wires on the IDE cable (the red one and the one next to it). I'm
willing to live with this if it fixes my problem, but my question is, will
having these two lines cut cause problems in the future, such as data
corruption? What do the first two wires on an IDE cable actually do?

Thanks
for the help!

Xavier



WD drives are known to have this problem. If using the drive as a single OS
drive, the jumper should be *removed* (it says this on the drive, itself, I
believe). Don't know what leads you cut, but repair them and run the drive
without the jumper and all should be OK.



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Old November 12th 03, 10:19 PM
homer
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the red line is the reset line, it does no harm cutting that line.
i used to cut that line, when i had my h/d in my old amiga
it stops the h/d spinning up and down when you reset
the computer.

what the second line is just a ground line from what i can find out
http://inf33-www.informatik.unibw-mu...r/tutorial/epr
mhtml/eprmb/1290.htm


hope that helps
homer

"Xavier" wrote in message
m...
Hey guys, I just bought an NF7-S board and am in the process of

building
it. I ran into one problem, and that is with my harddrives. The

motherboard
would freeze at the part that says "Detecting IDE Devices." Well, I did my
research and sure enough, it's my older Western Digital harddrives which
seem to cause problems with this board. One of them will not be detected

at
all no matter how I run it (whether it be in Dual Master/Slave mode or

just
Single mode). So I've tried everything I've read in different forums

(mostly
playing with the jumpers) and the thing that worked for me was cutting the
first two wires on the IDE cable (the red one and the one next to it). I'm
willing to live with this if it fixes my problem, but my question is, will
having these two lines cut cause problems in the future, such as data
corruption? What do the first two wires on an IDE cable actually do?

Thanks
for the help!

Xavier




 




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