HDD recognition prob on boot

[Driver67]

System Details:

P3-800
256megs PC 133 Crucial memory
Win 98 1st edition
Abit VT6X4 mobo
IBM Deskstar 34GXP DPTA-372730 (27.3gig partioned once; both FAT32 and 12.7gigs)

The slave on the master is a Pioneer DVD-105 player.

The problem:

HDD is not being recognized on boot by BIOS. Go into BIOS and is recognized in menu option IDE HDD auto-dectection. Save changes and reboot, only for problem to reoccur. Have tried large, manual, etc. on HDD settings for again the same will happen.

Have replaced BIOS battery, same problem occurs; is this a sign of HDD finally going? Windows crashes on restart, complains of device IOS fault.

Help appreciated by you all out there. Thank you for reading.

Peter

[Whyzman]

Hello Driver67,

Welcome to http://www.pcguide.com/ubb/pcgubb.gif Forums!

Was you system running smoothly before this problem began to occur? Any new software added, drivers prior to problem?


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[HokieStone]

First make sure that the Hard Drive is set to Master as well, not cable select or single. Did you just add the DVD?

If the master and slave settings are correct and it is still not responding, try changing the master setting on the Hard Drive to Cable Select, then try removing it all together and see if either of those work. I teach PC's and have found many occassions, mostly Western Digital, where the Drives did not work when set to master, but would boot fine when changed to CS or removed altogether.

Good Luck.

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[Driver67]

As mentioned, the HD is an IBM and the DVD was added about 15 months ago and modified into region-free about a year ago.

I am about to experiment in the BIOS. The Acess Mode will be set to Large, and the IBM Primary Master set to manual and see what happens.

Peter

[randyrhoads1981]

Adding to what Hokie was talking about ... my hardrive will not detect in bios untill i use no jumpers at all and its the only drive on the Prime IDE :O ..BUT if i want to add a slave along with that, it must use a jumper at master. Ive even had a case where i was getting a cdrom installed on a really old syetem that had only one IDE onboard and had the CDRom as a slave to the hardrive and nothing worked untill i left no jumper on the cdrom and left the hardrive as Master. One only other thought may be if ya have been pulling and tugging at those IDE ribbin cables before and since try another one and see if it helps at all. Even check the jumpers themselves ive seen the metal inserts come out. But you said it was being detected in the bios but not during the boot process..or is it just not responding? set all the settings on AUTO in the bios if ya choose a user in bios im not thinking it wont show it detected during the post..on the ones ive used anyway ..some Award's probably will just before the Windows loading screen..but if its a fast post it may not if there not set at auto. could it be a bad MBR? just throwing some ideals around.

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[This message has been edited by randyrhoads1981 (edited 03-05-2002).]

[This message has been edited by randyrhoads1981 (edited 03-05-2002).]

[Driver67]

Using basis of your suggestion Randy, I set the primary master to manual and the access mode to large.

On bootup it's not recognized, yet boots normally and works fine. Strange how it works like that, but I'm not complaining.

Peter