Motherboard (K7AMA) dead or what?

[Justgot2]

Im a bit lost........ok.....a whole bunch lost.

I THOUGHT I just lost my HDD (it wouldnt partition except for 2gigs out of 40) but I bought a new 80 gig Maxtor 7200rpm, 8 mb cache
AND a Maxtor 20 gig, 7200 rpm, 2mb cache for this tower.

Its an Athlon 1.3 with a K7AMA motherboard.

Ive tried both HDDs, changed bios to every option, set all drives to CS (cable sellect), set them all master and slave by choice, changed ribbons, checked power supply (connectors on drives will power the cpu fan),

TRIED to set Bios to User and set size on the HDD in Bios but clicking up and down will not let me get to the zeros that load by default on the IDE-0 size

When All set to Auto or ANY of the above options.......the system will not recognize the HDD, the Dvd Rom nor the Cd-W rom.

[Rat]

Try clearing the BIOS (uplug the system, remove the battery for an hour then put it back in) then start out with just one hard drive jumpered as Master or Single on the primary IDE channel, one CDROM on the secondary IDE channel jumpered as Master.


Rat

[Justgot2]

Thanks, Rat

At this point.........Im game. Ill let you know.


EEEEEEEEEK,when I reboot do I set Bios to all AUTO or try to set the IDE-0 size myself???

:):confused:

[comp_nut]

do you have the manuel ,go to bios setup up pages
and input what it saids in the manuel,it will get you
started in the right direction once up and running ,
you can fine tune your bios

[Justgot2]

thanks, Ill do that here in a bit....also working of gfs pc. YISH.......
is there a forum on identifying and stopping running processes?

She has like 57 processes loading each boot, alt/cntl/delete shows how many and the names but no idea what most of em are.

[Peter M]

Originally posted by Justgot2
Thanks, Rat

At this point.........Im game. Ill let you know.


EEEEEEEEEK,when I reboot do I set Bios to all AUTO or try to set the IDE-0 size myself???

:):confused:

Just put everything on AUTO. And make sure the IDE channels are enabled at all (from the Peripherals page of BIOS setup).

Besides, many boards won't boot if the CPU fan isn't connected to the onboard CPU fan header.

[Justgot2]

ok.......left the battery out overnight
put it back in
reset bios to all auto and ON

hooked up HDD and CD rom both on ends of ribbon AND set to master on separate ide

nothing is recognized by the system boot

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