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Sparhawk · 11-17-2003, 03:22 PM

So I bought a cheapo GENERIC hard drive back in september, and Sunday when I boot the machine up, the BIOS wasn't recognizing it at all. I try swapping power cables, IDE connectors, setting the jumper to slave, then back to master.... Nothing.

So for fun I take the jumper out and start the machine up without any setting, it still doesn't detect the drive. But I shut it down again, put the jumper back into its correct setting, boot it up, and presto, it is recognized.

So a friend of mine has a very BS-sounding explanation for all of this, but I want to see what y'all thought, before I add in his 2 cents.

11-17-2003, 03:22 PM	#1 (permalink)
Sparhawk Dubya Location: VA	BIOS wasn't recognizing my hard drive So I bought a cheapo GENERIC hard drive back in september, and Sunday when I boot the machine up, the BIOS wasn't recognizing it at all. I try swapping power cables, IDE connectors, setting the jumper to slave, then back to master.... Nothing. So for fun I take the jumper out and start the machine up without any setting, it still doesn't detect the drive. But I shut it down again, put the jumper back into its correct setting, boot it up, and presto, it is recognized. So a friend of mine has a very BS-sounding explanation for all of this, but I want to see what y'all thought, before I add in his 2 cents. __________________ "In Iraq, no doubt about it, it's tough. It's hard work. It's incredibly hard. It's - and it's hard work. I understand how hard it is. I get the casualty reports every day. I see on the TV screens how hard it is. But it's necessary work. We're making progress. It is hard work."