Hi
I have a Dell Dimension 2350 desktop with Bios Rev A02. The hard drive crashed sometime back and I installed a sata hard drive WD3200AAKS on it using the following adapter as shown in the web site.
http://www.meritline.com/ide-to-serial-ata-adapter---p-41199.aspx
I got another power cable to power the hard drive since i had only gotten one to power the adapter. The hard drive does power up now when i switch on the system. The bios does not recognize the hard drive though. I even put a jumper on the 5th and 6th pin to reduce the data transfer rate to 150 Mbps.
Trying to install Windows XP SP2 also does not work cause it says "hard drive not detected". On checking the manufacturers web site (Western Digital) they say that no drivers are needed. Hence I can not do an F6 clean install.
I do not know if I need to update the Bios and if I do need to, I do not know how to.
I am a rookie, but did a couple of searches on the net to get all the info that I did so far. Any help to install this hard drive will be greatly appreciated. And thanks in advance.
Ben
I have a Dell Dimension 2350 desktop with Bios Rev A02. The hard drive crashed sometime back and I installed a sata hard drive WD3200AAKS on it using the following adapter as shown in the web site.
http://www.meritline.com/ide-to-serial-ata-adapter---p-41199.aspx
I got another power cable to power the hard drive since i had only gotten one to power the adapter. The hard drive does power up now when i switch on the system. The bios does not recognize the hard drive though. I even put a jumper on the 5th and 6th pin to reduce the data transfer rate to 150 Mbps.
Trying to install Windows XP SP2 also does not work cause it says "hard drive not detected". On checking the manufacturers web site (Western Digital) they say that no drivers are needed. Hence I can not do an F6 clean install.
I do not know if I need to update the Bios and if I do need to, I do not know how to.
I am a rookie, but did a couple of searches on the net to get all the info that I did so far. Any help to install this hard drive will be greatly appreciated. And thanks in advance.
Ben