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April 18th 04, 03:04 AM
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HDD not recognized by puter?.....HELP!!!
Got myself an ebay special Compaq Presario 12XL300 Laptop minus hard drive.
I've tried to install 3 known good hard drives and none are recognized in the bios and I get the message "Operating system not found" on boot. Any suggestions besides staying away from ebay? GMAN 
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April 18th 04, 03:50 AM
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yah set your drive to cable select , the CDROM is hogging the IDE
chain Got myself an ebay special Compaq Presario 12XL300 Laptop minus hard drive. I've tried to install 3 known good hard drives and none are recognized in the bios and I get the message "Operating system not found" on boot. Any suggestions besides staying away from ebay? GMAN
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April 18th 04, 11:34 AM
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In a laptop?
Personally, I'd suspect a bad motherboard I'd return it! "Sharmon" wrote in message ... yah set your drive to cable select , the CDROM is hogging the IDE chain Got myself an ebay special Compaq Presario 12XL300 Laptop minus hard drive. I've tried to install 3 known good hard drives and none are recognized in the bios and I get the message "Operating system not found" on boot. Any suggestions besides staying away from ebay? GMAN
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April 18th 04, 01:07 PM
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Yes the CDROM and HDD are both IDE and should be cable select . This
would matter if it was only 1 IDE device In a laptop? Personally, I'd suspect a bad motherboard I'd return it! "Sharmon" wrote in message .. . yah set your drive to cable select , the CDROM is hogging the IDE chain Got myself an ebay special Compaq Presario 12XL300 Laptop minus hard drive. I've tried to install 3 known good hard drives and none are recognized in the bios and I get the message "Operating system not found" on boot. Any suggestions besides staying away from ebay? GMAN
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April 18th 04, 02:27 PM
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I've never even SEEN a jumper on a laptop hard drive or laptop cd drive.
"Sharmon" wrote in message ... Yes the CDROM and HDD are both IDE and should be cable select . This would matter if it was only 1 IDE device In a laptop? Personally, I'd suspect a bad motherboard I'd return it! "Sharmon" wrote in message .. . yah set your drive to cable select , the CDROM is hogging the IDE chain Got myself an ebay special Compaq Presario 12XL300 Laptop minus hard drive. I've tried to install 3 known good hard drives and none are recognized in the bios and I get the message "Operating system not found" on boot. Any suggestions besides staying away from ebay? GMAN
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April 18th 04, 02:51 PM
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I've never even SEEN a jumper on a laptop hard drive or laptop cd drive.
In my very limited experience on old laptops neither have I. Curious though...what is the mode a laptop operates in...standard IDE Master/Slave, or Cable Select? I'd guess IDE M/S, as that what I had to use when adding HDDs and CDROMS to base expansion units for older laptops I have. (Not that any of this has anything to do with the original poster's problem--I just wanted to add a tidbit of interesting info to my "knowledge". As for the original problem, try a CMOS reset, or could be a bad data cable. Worse case, bad systemboard... Dale Dale
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April 19th 04, 06:15 PM
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DEJ57 wrote:
I've never even SEEN a jumper on a laptop hard drive or laptop cd drive. In my very limited experience on old laptops neither have I. Curious though...what is the mode a laptop operates in...standard IDE Master/Slave, or Cable Select? I'd guess IDE M/S, as that what I had to use when adding HDDs and CDROMS to base expansion units for older laptops I have. (Not that any of this has anything to do with the original poster's problem--I just wanted to add a tidbit of interesting info to my "knowledge". As for the original problem, try a CMOS reset, or could be a bad data cable. Worse case, bad systemboard... Dale Dale Looking just to the right of the 43 connector pins on a laptop drive (Travelstar DADA-26480) are 4 pins, which can be selected with a jumper for "Device0", "Device1", or "Cable Sel."... My laptops came standard as "Device0" for the main C:\drive... Willard 
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April 19th 04, 11:48 PM
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As I said most (not all) Compaqs are cable select and if you set it
to 0 or 1 it will not work with the CDROM in DEJ57 wrote: I've never even SEEN a jumper on a laptop hard drive or laptop cd drive. In my very limited experience on old laptops neither have I. Curious though...what is the mode a laptop operates in...standard IDE Master/Slave, or Cable Select? I'd guess IDE M/S, as that what I had to use when adding HDDs and CDROMS to base expansion units for older laptops I have. (Not that any of this has anything to do with the original poster's problem--I just wanted to add a tidbit of interesting info to my "knowledge". As for the original problem, try a CMOS reset, or could be a bad data cable. Worse case, bad systemboard... Dale Dale Looking just to the right of the 43 connector pins on a laptop drive (Travelstar DADA-26480) are 4 pins, which can be selected with a jumper for "Device0", "Device1", or "Cable Sel."... My laptops came standard as "Device0" for the main C:\drive... Willard
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April 26th 04, 06:52 AM
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Verdict is in, it was a bad motherboard, hard drive was set to CS, bios was
set to auto. Thanks for the help. GMAN "DavidG35" wrote in message news:thlgc.55088$U83.40455@fed1read03... Got myself an ebay special Compaq Presario 12XL300 Laptop minus hard drive. I've tried to install 3 known good hard drives and none are recognized in the bios and I get the message "Operating system not found" on boot. Any suggestions besides staying away from ebay? GMAN
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