bios not detecting both ide hard drives

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Hi All,
As the subject line says i am unable to boot.
They are connected to the primary socket on the m/b.
A new build system Asus pc4800 deluxe bios 1019
p4 3g
1g crucial
4 hdds
This has been working fine for about a week, until I turned it on after
about a 3 hour break, and no hdds!

bios detects cd rom
two usb devices
two ide hdds on the promise controller (not raid)
no error beeps

I have swapped cables with the cd rom and it shows up in the bios on both
primary and secondary.
I removed the two on the promise but no difference.
I have not changed any settings.
Any ideas anyone?
thanks Peter

 

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grylion wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> As the subject line says i am unable to boot.
> They are connected to the primary socket on the m/b.
> A new build system Asus pc4800 deluxe bios 1019
> p4 3g
> 1g crucial
> 4 hdds
> This has been working fine for about a week, until I turned it on after
> about a 3 hour break, and no hdds!
>
> bios detects cd rom
> two usb devices
> two ide hdds on the promise controller (not raid)
> no error beeps
>
> I have swapped cables with the cd rom and it shows up in the bios on both
> primary and secondary.
> I removed the two on the promise but no difference.
> I have not changed any settings.
> Any ideas anyone?
> thanks Peter

80 pin IDE cables?

 

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On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 01:32:11 +0000 (UTC), in <alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus>,
"grylion" <grylion@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> From: "grylion" <grylion@btinternet.com>
> Newsgroups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
> Subject: bios not detecting both ide hard drives
[snip]

Please out your entire query in the BODY of your article(s).

> Hi All,
> As the subject line says i am unable to boot.
> They are connected to the primary socket on the m/b.
> A new build system Asus pc4800 deluxe bios 1019
> p4 3g
> 1g crucial
> 4 hdds
> This has been working fine for about a week, until I turned it on after
> about a 3 hour break, and no hdds!
>
[snip]

Try disconnecting ONE of those HDDs at a time from the cable (you'll probably
need to re-jumper the "Slave" drive to "Master" or "Single" for it's solo turn
on the cable). The way IDE works, if the control interface on one drive in a
master/slave pair is FUBAR, odds are it will keep commands from properly
reaching the other drive, even if that other drive is undamaged.

Also, double-check the power-cable connections to both drives. (Can you hear
them spin up when you turn on the system?)

> I have swapped cables with the cd rom and it shows up in the bios on both
> primary and secondary.
[snip]

*What* "shows up in the bios"? The CD-ROM, or the HDDs? I thought you said
the HDDs were not being detected?

Or do you mean to say that you temporarily cannibalized the IDE cable off the
CD-ROM drive, and applied it to the HDDs, with no change is result?

Or do you mean something else entirely?

> I removed the two on the promise but no difference.
> I have not changed any settings.
[snip]

But have you *checked* your current CMOS (often called "BIOS") settings, to be
sure that they did not somehow inadvertently become corrupted?

> Any ideas anyone?
[snip]

That's about all I've got at the moment.

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On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 07:48:09 GMT, in <alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus>, Gordon
Scott <gordsmail@NOSPAMshaw.ca> wrote:
>
[snip]
>
> 80 pin IDE cables?

Do not exist.

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"Jay T. Blocksom" wrote:
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> On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 07:48:09 GMT, in <alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus>, Gordon
> Scott <gordsmail@NOSPAMshaw.ca> wrote:
> >
> [snip]
> >
> > 80 pin IDE cables?
>
> Do not exist.
>
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ok 80 conductor then...

 

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sorry for the delay
the drive was fubar
as you stated correctly below

The way IDE works, if the control interface on one drive in a
> master/slave pair is FUBAR, odds are it will keep commands from properly
> reaching the other drive, even if that other drive is undamaged.
..

 

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On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 19:55:10 +0000 (UTC), in <alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus>,
"grylion" <grylion@btinternet.com> wrote:
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> sorry for the delay
> the drive was fubar
> as you stated correctly below
>
[snip]

Glad to hear you got it sorted out.

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