detecting ide problem

[acorn10]

I have a problem with my system hanging when it comes to Detecting Ide drives... System just sits there waiting. I cant get into bios at this point either.

I purchased an Epox 9nda3i motherboard and an athlon 64 3200 processor to replace my asus motherboard and celeron 2.0 processor.
I installed the new processor and MB and hooked up all my existing components. I have a Sata drive and an Ide drive. I unhooked the ide drive and did a new install of Windows xp onto the sata drive and everything worked good. after getting all updates installed, I plugged the ide drive in to get at my old info and rebooted. This is where the problem comes up, stuck at detecing ide drives. If i turn it off and unhook the ide drive everything works fine. I couldn't find any updated bios on the epox website and I updated to new nforce 3 drivers with no luck.
any help would be appreciated. I have tried 2 different ide drives with the same reslults. both drives are western digital. i have also tried different ide cables and also tried ide 1 and ide 2 with the same results.

 

[slicessoul]

Look like there's something wrong in BIOS.

Unhook the IDE HDDs, then go to BIOS. I think there's some setting that you need to change. Try to load as default or optimized settings or set in HDD settings to auto. Sometimes BIOS has a setting on how many second it have to wait for detecting HDD.

 

[acorn10]

Thanks for the reply.
I tried both the optimized and default settings in bios, no difference on either one. The delay for HDD is at zero. I turned off the ide raid boot option with no luck. Turned on master udma ide channel zero with no luck either.

 

[slicessoul]

If you unhook the SATA HDD and hook only the IDE hDD, is it passed the detection ?

 

[mcgruff]

I've had the same problem which in my case was simply caused by not plugging the IDE cable in properly. You really had to push hard to get it properly seated in the mobo socket. Not too hard though... Try a different cable while you're at it.

 

[acorn10]

It will not pass ide detection with the SATA drive unhooked.
I tried 3 different cables and all do the same thing.
My DVD drive is on the other ide channel and it works fine. I switched the cable on the dvd to the hd hoping it would work, but it didnt. The dvd works with either cable.

 

[Codesmith]

Is the system failing to POST or is the OS just not loading.

Have you double checked the jumpers? Most western digital drives will not function if you set then to master with no slave present. There is a single drive settings (usually no jumper) that you must use.

It could be that your system is simply trying to boot off the wrong hard drive, in which case you need to change the boot priority in the CMOS setup.

An incorrect jumper setting may cause the system to hang, while an incorrect boot order will give you an error message mentioning a system disk.

 

[acorn10]

thanks all of you for the help.
It was something simple. I removed the jumper on the drive and it worked fine.
I didn't think that was the problem because it was on slave before with just one ide and sata drive and worked fine.

thanks again I learned something new

 

[Codesmith]

Sometimes bad settings mysteriously work.

 

[81Vaibhav]

thanks all of you for the help.
It was something simple. I removed the jumper on the drive and it worked fine.
I didn't think that was the problem because it was on slave before with just one ide and sata drive and worked fine.

thanks again I learned something new

Hello Pls can u tell me what is Jumper?
I also have a same problem of detecting ide drives...