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Scottwinning

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So I'm a bit of a newbie.....

Had a few old pcs lying around and though I'd knock together a cheapo music play to stick under the tv.

Got an old hp pavilion with a MSI MS-7814 motherboard that I thought I'd stick in a new mATX case..... Plugged the thing into an old monitor to check it was working and nothing showed on screen.....
I thought I'd clear the CMOS as I have a windows 7 disc and I'd just fresh install, turns out the monitor was faulty and everything works fine on another one.....
Problem is I now can't see the hard drive in the bios and whilst the win7 disc is reading from the DVD drive I have no where to load it to.
I don't have the drivers for the hard drive and can't find them online (it's an old seagate, not on there website)

Any ideas on how to sort this?

Thanks in advance
 
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heres some pictures of them
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=hard+drive+jumpers&qpvt=hard+drive+jumpers&FORM=IGRE

they go over the metal pins to configure the drive off to the side of where the connector plugs in

if you look on the drive itself it should have a pictures showing how to configure them should say something along the lines of (master, slave, master single device) and a picture like ::[:]: (in this case install on the third set of pins)

master is if its the first of two devices hooked to a cable(default for a hard drive) slave if the 2nd drive. there can only be one master and one slave on a cable or they wont talk to the motherboard. I hope I have explained it where you understand
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heres some pictures of them
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=hard+drive+jumpers&qpvt=hard+drive+jumpers&FORM=IGRE

they go over the metal pins to configure the drive off to the side of where the connector plugs in

if you look on the drive itself it should have a pictures showing how to configure them should say something along the lines of (master, slave, master single device) and a picture like ::[:]: (in this case install on the third set of pins)

master is if its the first of two devices hooked to a cable(default for a hard drive) slave if the 2nd drive. there can only be one master and one slave on a cable or they wont talk to the motherboard. I hope I have explained it where you understand
 
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Scottwinning

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Ah ok, this may be the issue, can't check just now but it is a different HD to the origional and also out of an old pc so the may be configured wrongly!
Thanks for your help I'll let you know if it works :)
 
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If the hard drive is connected to the motherboard via a wide, flat, ribbon cable (about 3 inches wide).... then check for Master / Slave jumpers on the hard drive as previously posted....

But, if this is your motherboard:
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=MS-7184-BO

Looks like you could have a newer SATA hard drive. Connected with a narrow (about 1/2) wide, cable. No Master/Slave on these newer drives...
 
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Scottwinning

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Pretty sure it is old ribbon type, I've built a new pc in the last year with a few Sata drives, hence not knowing about the 'jumpers'.
I'll probably not get back to it for a couple of days but will keep you posted.

Thanks again for your help this site is great!
 
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We'll the good news is if that old Maxtor is dead, at least you can get a new hard drive (SATA) since finding an old ATA drive is pretty tough these days....

Be sure to go into the BIOS an assure the setting for hard drive is to PATA and IDE....
 
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