Hard disk problem

[blizzard900]

Hi! i have a huge problem. My secondary comupter alwyas freezes when i'm trying to detect a new 40gb IDE harddisk in the bios, and i have to push Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart it when i take it out the computer works just fine..... i have checked the hard disk on my primary computer and it works fine on that one.... please help me :!:

 

[TBlaar]

make sure the one is master, and the other one slave. i have also had troubles with drives being on cable select, and so, so specify each one.

Also test if the 40 GB detects if on cable by itself.

 

[blizzard900]

Already tried diffrent combinations with the master and slave thing, also tried cable select and i have tried difftent cables.... NOTHING seems to work. thx anyway.

 

[evongugg]

The blue connector goes towards the motherboard (IDE1 usually) and the black connector at the end goes to the master hard disk.
If you invert cable ends, you will have problems.

 

[Dahak]

Are you adding another hard drive?or is this just a new one?Cause if you are adding another hd to your system,you need to make sure the hard drives are pinned out as master and slave.Sounds like you are adding a second drive and just don't have it set up for master and slave on the jumpers.Try pinning them out and see what happens.Goodluck.

Dahak

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[blizzard900]

Yes i'm adding a second drive and i have them pinned as master and slave but still, nothing..... as i said it works fine on my other computer but not on this one. i have also tried with some older hard disks as well and they semm to work but not the 40gb. Really strange, i have no idea what to do. thx for the hints.

 

[evongugg]

If the master is a Western Digital there are 2 master pin settings:
master single
master with slave present

 

[blizzard900]

Good to know, but it's not a Western Digital it's a Seagate Barracuda. And i have never had this much problem with a seagate hard disk, in fact i have never had any problem with them at all...

 

[evongugg]

Run the manufacturer's diagnostics on that drive. Create a bootable floppy or CD and check the drive.
You can also do a drive fitness test with:

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

 

[blizzard900]

Thanks. I'll try that.