Motherboard woes

[cwarren13]

I recently purchased a Chaintech VNF3-250 motherboard and it boots up but doesnt recognize my hard drive in bios. When I try to detect it, bios takes longer than normal to detect empty slots or cd drives (which it does detect) but fails to detect it. Its obviously seeing something, what could be the issue here?
Also, after it detects the 2 cd drives, on the next bootup it looses the information.

 

[Crashman]

Is it a Western Digital drive? They have some strange jumper configurations.

Anyway, it sounds like a master/slave conflict, it could be something else. Please list your drives, their configuration, and which connections to the board you're using for them.

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[Black_Cat]

I'm glad I'm not the only one that plays musical jumpers with WD drives.



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[HansGruber]

Set jumpers to "cable select", that is the only correct way.
(old hardware might disagree)

 

[Cybercraig]

Also, after it detects the 2 cd drives, on the next bootup it looses the information

Check the battery voltage in BIOS. Change the battery next to BIOS chip if it's low. That should default it. Go back through it and make sure all your parameters are set correctly.

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[mozzartusm]

Is it a Western Digital drive? They have some strange jumper configurations

Yes they do!

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