alving
07-10-1999, 01:46 PM
Help!! I'm at my wits end. I'm not exactly a novice in putting computer systems together...been doing it for several years now. However, the ASUS P2B-F MB is really giving me fits.
I installed a new WD Caviar AC26400 onto a new system as primary master on the primary controller with the ASUS, Celeron 400 OC'd to 450Mhz, Raven Banshee video card, 128MB PC133 HSDRAM, LS-120 super disk as primary master on the secondary controller, Adaptec 2940AU SCSI card and a Plextor 32X SCSI CD-ROM drive. After the physical installation of the new WD hard drive, I went into the BIOS and set it to auto detect the HD in LGA mode. Upon booting up I see that it properly detects the HD and the LS-120 on their respective controllers. My startup disk boots me to an A: prompt after installing the SCSI CD-ROM drivers and assigning the Plextor to the G: drive letter as indicated in the start up disk's auto.exec file. When I type in C: to get onto the HD I get the message "Invalid Drive Specification). I can't FDISK or FORMAT the HD if I can't access it via my start up disk!
I've gone into the BIOS countless times trying to figure out what I may missing or failing to do so the drive will be assigned a drive letter. As I said before, the HD appears to be recognized by the BIOS since during boot up the drive's information is being properly displayed. What more can I do??
I think I can rule out a bad drive since I did run the OnTrack Data Advisor diagnostic which examines your HD with a Quick Functional Test and a Complete Surface Scan, among other tests. The WD hard drive passed all tests.
I installed a new WD Caviar AC26400 onto a new system as primary master on the primary controller with the ASUS, Celeron 400 OC'd to 450Mhz, Raven Banshee video card, 128MB PC133 HSDRAM, LS-120 super disk as primary master on the secondary controller, Adaptec 2940AU SCSI card and a Plextor 32X SCSI CD-ROM drive. After the physical installation of the new WD hard drive, I went into the BIOS and set it to auto detect the HD in LGA mode. Upon booting up I see that it properly detects the HD and the LS-120 on their respective controllers. My startup disk boots me to an A: prompt after installing the SCSI CD-ROM drivers and assigning the Plextor to the G: drive letter as indicated in the start up disk's auto.exec file. When I type in C: to get onto the HD I get the message "Invalid Drive Specification). I can't FDISK or FORMAT the HD if I can't access it via my start up disk!
I've gone into the BIOS countless times trying to figure out what I may missing or failing to do so the drive will be assigned a drive letter. As I said before, the HD appears to be recognized by the BIOS since during boot up the drive's information is being properly displayed. What more can I do??
I think I can rule out a bad drive since I did run the OnTrack Data Advisor diagnostic which examines your HD with a Quick Functional Test and a Complete Surface Scan, among other tests. The WD hard drive passed all tests.