Case of disappearing drives

[Shvarz]

Hello all!!

I've been moving all my hardware into a new Enlight case I bought recently (yes - 7237, no - they are not as good as some people claim). And I got this little problem: When I connect my two hard-drives to primary channel, the bios finds them OK, however if I plug in the CD-ROM (as master or slave) onto the secondary channel, nothing comes up. My HDs disappear! BIOS looks for HDs at boot (i have it on autodetect), and does not find them.
It is the same configuration, as before. As I said, I just disconnected the cables, moved the stuff, and plugged everything back together. Where did I make a mistake?

Please help...

 

[Guest]

Whats the cd set as?

 

[Guest]

I would guess something is wrong with your cables. Are you sure that all the pins fit into the correct position? Could it be that you were disconnecting cables while having the PC switched on?

 

[Shvarz]

Normally it's on master, but I've tried slave and got the same thing. Really weird, I don't understand what is the reason for "dissapearing" of the HDs, I would think that if something is wrong with CD-ROM, then it would not just appear....

 

[Shocwavez]

just a silly thought, do you have the power cords pluged in on the new HD's.

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[Shvarz]

Yes I do, that's the thing, everything works fine until I add the CD-ROM, after that - nothing.

 

[Shocwavez]

Try attaching another drive(CD,HD,Zip,etc), if you have one, to where you're putting the offending CD rom and see if it does the same thing. At least this way you can see if you got a glitch with the drive or if its the connection.

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[silverpig]

You could also try putting one hard drive as primary master, one as secondary master, and the cdrom as primary slave. Just try it and see what happens.

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[Shvarz]

Thanks for your help everyone!

I don't know what was wrong, but it is working now. All I did was take out all of the cables, blow on connectors (just in case) and plug everything back. I guess it is just one of those strange things that happen to people once in a while.
Again, thanks everyone!
Bye

 

[Guest]

thats the wonderful thing about computers, sometimes things just happen, lol