BIOS wasn't recognizing my hard drive - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

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.

steveincolumbus · 11-17-2003, 06:08 PM

sounds like it is dieing personally.... or just bad connections somewhere, cold joints...........

Lasereth · 11-17-2003, 06:50 PM

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Originally posted by Sparhawk
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.

My computer has did this before. Restarting like 30 times fixed it. I don't know what causes it. The last time it did it was when Battlefield froze up on me. The CD-ROM wouldn't stop spinning. I resetted, and it wasn't listed in the IDE channels in BIOS anymore. I had to restart multiple times to come back. Oh well, at least it's back.

-Lasereth

11-17-2003, 03:22 PM	#1 (permalink)
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11-17-2003, 06:08 PM	#2 (permalink)
steveincolumbus Psycho Location: BFE, Kentucky	sounds like it is dieing personally.... or just bad connections somewhere, cold joints...........