BIOS won't detect drives

[Indus]

Ok heres the situation. I bought a new Maxtor 160gb drive and removed a 80gb from my system. Put all the connections back together and powered up and it would not detect the HDD's, there are 3 total, and it wouldn't detect my dvd drive. I have a Asus A7V600 mobo, WD 20gb(primary 1st ide), then Maxtor 160gb(slave 1st ide) on the same ide channel, and my WD 40gb(primary 2nd ide), PX708A(slave 2nd ide).

I've checked the jumpers, taken all drive out of system and checked all wrires still will not detect any drive. It did detect the 20gb and the 160 a couple times but stopped soon after rebooting. I'm at the end of my rope and would appreciate any help asap seeing I don't have very much computer access from home now.

Thanks, Indus

Athlon XP 2600
Asus K7V600
Kingston 512MB PC3200
GeForceFX 5200 128DDR

 

[RichPLS]

Try them one at a time as master jumped, and check carefully again all bios settings pertaining to drives.

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[Indus]

Bahh, I feel like such an idiot. It was jumper configurations, one of my WD drives didn't have the proper label description for the jumpers. All is good now though that I found the right setting.

Athlon XP 2600
Asus K7V600
Kingston 1GB PC3200
GeForceFX 5200 128DDR

 

[Black_Cat]

That wouldn't be the first time. WD is a pain in the arse when it comes to that. Many times I've had to play musical jumpers. Lately they've been lableling the flip side of their drives. I just installed one today that was clearly labeled.

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