hard drive problem

[Calicored]

I have a compaq presario 5030 with an 8 gig hard drive. There is no available bay to put in a second hard drive, so I want to change the hard drive and install a bigger one. I took out the old hard drive and connected up the two hard drives to the controller on a two-drive cable with both connected to the powersupply. After connecting the old as the master and new as the slave. I get nothing coming up...no picture on the screen..nothing. I can hear the hard drive running, but nothing is being displayed. I checked the seating of the video card and all on the motherboard and all is okay. I am not getting anything working. I hooked the hard drive back up as it was and still nothing. Since I took it out, I can't get a thing on it at all.
I'm not sure where to go from here. What can I check to find out what happened. It was working fine before I took it out....now nothing (even after hooking it back up.
thanks
Barbara

[siko]

That's not good. Sell your pc to some dumbass for $500 and buy a new one.

[4020]

That a real good answer. I'm sure that will keep people coming back. If she wnted an answer like that she would not have come here. Get a life.

[4020]

That's a real good answer. I'm sure that will keep people coming back. If she wanted an answer like that she would not have come here. I thought this was supposed to be a support board, not a place to be shot down?????

[Underclocked]

Make sure the jumpers on the drives themselves correspond to what you have said.
Clear cmos on the mobo (or remove the onboard battery for an hour or so). Recheck all connections and try to boot. Make sure to delete your way into the bios setup and put all the IDE stuff to auto.
If that fails (did you put the old cable back in as well?) it's time for the next guess????

[This message has been edited by Underclocked (edited 09-06-99).]

[Ed_S]

No offense, but is the ide cable correct? Red stripe to pin 1 on MB and HD's?
When you say nothing on screen, do you mean absolutely nothing? If so recheck your video connections, remove HDs and IDE cable entirely and see if it will display post info or allow bios access. It should. Doing this will eliminate any potential problems caused by the components you changed.

Have only worked on one Compaq & it was weird to deal with. Didn't like changes at all! As I remember, it had an unusual key combination for bios access, don't think that one had "auto" option either.