HDD Problem Installing

[Glenville]

Hello and thanks for having me here.


Ime building a computer using old parts.

PCchips M810 Motherboard which worked OK in the PC I upgraded.

AMD Duron 1300
New PSU and case
Plenty Memory
CD Writer Reader

Problem.
Hard Drive not recognised on IDE 0 or IDE1

Tried Auto Detect in Setup and everthing else is detected OK but the Primary Master HDD or any HDD for that matter.

Ive tried CD Drive on the same cable and it is detected OK.

Ive tried different HDDs new and old and none are detected.

Ive tried swapping HDD between IDEs but it isnt recognised.

Ive build a number of systems and never came accross this problem.

Does anyone have any suggestions.

Thanks in advance.

 

[agissi]

Have the hard drive connected to the ribbon cable on the master channel (Hard drive > Cable > Master Port on the mobo)

Also, be sure your hard drive's jumper is set to master, that could well be your problem

 

[Shiney]

Well you have tried most of the ideas that i would have suggested, just a couple more for you to try, reset your bios using onboard jumper, ensure drive is working in other pc.
Unplug all other drives except for the main one.

Good Luck

 

[RealBlackStuff]

Does that mobo have Raid, and was it set-up to use Raid before?
Maybe need to switch a jumper or BIOS setting.

Does that HD work in another PC? Maybe a pin is bent or one of the molex-connectors for power is loose.
Check the startup in BIOS, set it to floppy, to see if the rest works.

 

[Glenville]

Thanks for your replies.

I had already tried most of your suggestions apart from resetting the BIOS. Ill try that and let you know my results.

BTW, Same MOBO and HDD where both used in on the system where they came from.

 

[Phantasm66]

Is the drive actually spinning up? If you touch it whilst the computer is on, do you get the feeling that the drive is actually moving?

Did you say that ALL hard drives you attach to the system have this problem?

 

[Glenville]

Solved the problem... but don't how, i just rebooted with the Windows XP Pro disk and for some reason the HDD was their...