I'm having a very strange problem with Asus motherboards lately.
Ok, initially I was building a computer for a friend and used an Asus CUSL2 ATX 133Mhz motherboard. However, I kept having this problem with the hard drives when I would try and boot up. It would detect the hard drive fine on the initial bootup screen (where it also checks memory), but on the 2nd screen (with the black and white table that lists data including which dimm slots are filled, total memory, cache size, prim/secondary, etc.) it would fail to find the drive in the primary master area. I tried all sorts of things to fix it, including using different cables, switching up prim/secondary, master/slave, another hard drive, and so on, but nothing worked. So I sent it back, citing motherboard problems, and will be receiving it back sometime this week.
Okay, now for my current problem, which is strikingly similar. I'm building a new comp for myself, which is a 1.2ghz amd thunderbird with an Asus a7m 266 motherboard. On the first screen, it checks the mem and processor fine, but then says "primary master drive failed." When I hit F1 to continue, it brought me to the next screen and said there's no os to boot from. So I switched between auto and user-defined hard drive in the bios, but that didn't help. I re-secured ide cables, nothing, I tried different ide cables, nothing. I tried a different hard drive, nothing. I tried switching it to secondary master, and got the same error, this time saying "secondary master drive failed."
The only difference between the two problems is that the one I need help with right now shows me an error on the very first screen, but I'm guessing that has to do with the bios/motherboard version.
If anyone knows if there is some special way I have to setup my drives for an athlon system (this is my first), or if there's some magical feature in the bios, or if i need to flash my bios, or anything else you can think of, please let me know.
Thanks in advance to any help. Really appreciate it.
Ok, initially I was building a computer for a friend and used an Asus CUSL2 ATX 133Mhz motherboard. However, I kept having this problem with the hard drives when I would try and boot up. It would detect the hard drive fine on the initial bootup screen (where it also checks memory), but on the 2nd screen (with the black and white table that lists data including which dimm slots are filled, total memory, cache size, prim/secondary, etc.) it would fail to find the drive in the primary master area. I tried all sorts of things to fix it, including using different cables, switching up prim/secondary, master/slave, another hard drive, and so on, but nothing worked. So I sent it back, citing motherboard problems, and will be receiving it back sometime this week.
Okay, now for my current problem, which is strikingly similar. I'm building a new comp for myself, which is a 1.2ghz amd thunderbird with an Asus a7m 266 motherboard. On the first screen, it checks the mem and processor fine, but then says "primary master drive failed." When I hit F1 to continue, it brought me to the next screen and said there's no os to boot from. So I switched between auto and user-defined hard drive in the bios, but that didn't help. I re-secured ide cables, nothing, I tried different ide cables, nothing. I tried a different hard drive, nothing. I tried switching it to secondary master, and got the same error, this time saying "secondary master drive failed."
The only difference between the two problems is that the one I need help with right now shows me an error on the very first screen, but I'm guessing that has to do with the bios/motherboard version.
If anyone knows if there is some special way I have to setup my drives for an athlon system (this is my first), or if there's some magical feature in the bios, or if i need to flash my bios, or anything else you can think of, please let me know.
Thanks in advance to any help. Really appreciate it.
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