How can the System detect HD and CD?

[Sarab]

Dear All,

I wonder if some body could help me. I have a Gigabyte (GA 5AX) with 64 MB RAM and AMD K6-2 550mhz, and 210 gb Seagate HD with windows 95. The system was working fine although I did not have a CD drive. Recently I bought a bigger HD, Western Digital 10 gb and a CD drive. I attempted to install the drives with the HD being selected as Primary Master and connected to Primary IDE port, and CD as Secondary Slave (through the drive pins) and connected to secondary IDE port. The system hang up just as it started the detection process. I attempted to use the CMOS by selecting the Auto detection function as well as user defined function but still hung and could not detect both HD and CD. I am certain that the usual checking of connections and cables etc.. is done every time I tried to boot the PC. The strange thing is that when I disconnected the new drive and replaced the old Seagate drive the system works fine although still does not detect the CD. Furthermore, I flashed the BIOS to 5ax F3 (supposed to solve the detection of big HDs) as advised by Gigabyte support site but still no luck. Could someone advice me, please.

PS. Both HD and CD were tested by a friend and work fine.

Thanks

Sarab

[S.D.Willie]

stupid question but do you have your bios set to plug and play??? or in some older bios's (set to win95). just a thought.

SD

[eagle1]

Alos .. are the jumpers in the back of the drives correct for the master and slave settings??

Check if the Hard Drive has a jumper for CS (cable select) and put the jumper there (in cable select) and reboot and see if the Bios recognizes it.!

[Symes]

First things first - If you are using the new drive on the primary IDE channel, make sure the HDD is jumpered to be a master (or cable select) - some drives also have a jumper to indicate if they are the only drive on the channel or one of two.

The CD is using the secondary IDE channel but is the only device on it and so *also* needs to be jumpered as master (my preference) or cable select. You only jumper a drive to slave if it is sharing the IDE channel with another drive which is jumpered as a master.

Now there is another possibility - I'm not sure about your BIOS on that board, BUT...

Award Bioses dated before the end of 1999(?) do not recognise hard drives with a capacity greater than 30/32Gb - if you're shiney new drive is a 40Gb and you have an AWARD bios - check the date and see if there is a newer version!

**** Just reread your message and saw it was actually a 10Gb so it's not the AWARD thing!

Chances are it's the jumpers then, check out the WD site and get the info on the jumper settings there.


[This message has been edited by Symes (edited 06-27-2001).]