Bios not recognizing hard drive

[dsim]

I recently purchased an ASUS A7V333 motherboard and built a new system for the first time. After I got the system up and running, I tried to connect my old hard drive (to copy files) while the system was on and saw sparks when I touched the power supply cable to the drive. The screen filled with lines and I shut the system off immediately. Big mistake!

After starting up again, I noticed that the bios did not recognize my new hard drive anymore. The other boot devices (CD, floppy, etc.) were recognized and labeled correctly in the bios. I ran PC Mark 2002 and noticed that my new hard drive scores were lower than another person with the same drive (WD 1000JB). I called the vendor and they said to try hooking up the hard drive to the secondary IDE port (where my CD is). If the secondary port sees my hard drive, they will send me a new primary port. I am a little confused here. If the port was bad, would the hard drive still function at less than optimal performance? My hard drive still works, but it’s not listed in the bios under boot devices. What do you think I should do? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks for your help.

[Bovon]

Welcome to SysOpt

You may have fried the new hard drive by attempting to connect the old drive while the machine was running. This would not have worked anyway because the bios would have had to detect the old drive before it would show up in Windows anyway.

The vendor cannot send you a new port, he may send you a new hard drive, but the 'port' and controllers are part of the motherboard, unless you are using a controller card.

You can test the new hard drive on the secondary IDE controller, this may prove if you have fried the primary IDE controller on your motherboard.

How do you know the new hard drive still works? you say it is not listed in the bios under boot devices..If the drive is booting into Windows, don't worry about the benchmarks being a little lower than somebody else, there is a lot more to benchmarking a drive than just hooking it up and running the test.

[Mafiosy]

Once i was reparing my desklamp when the power cable was connected to the socket.... :D