In a message dated 3/19/2001 12:31:12 PM Central Standard Time,
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> From Susan Stubbs:
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> Hi, I am totally bummed. I have been piecing together my new PC since
> January.
> I got an Asus K7V-RM motherboard, Athlon 900Mhz slot A processor and fan,
> Maxtor 30gig  7200rpm Ultra-66 harddrive, 256MB stick of Siemens Infineon
> CAS
> SRAM, and TAX case w/300 watt PS.
> I work full time so I have little time for much except at night, and even
> right
> now I
> am taking night classes, so today I finally put it all together. I put in my
> Iomega
> Zip650 CDwriter drive, and an old IBM 6X CDROM drive, also a working pull
> Sony
> floppy drive. I bought a brand new Hercules prophet geforce 2MX agp video
> card.
> I spent days making sure all the jumpers were right so that I would not fry
> anything.
> All the cables are brand new.
> OK, so I boot up to go to the BIOS and configure it, I figure I will spend a
> few days
> on this to make sure the settings are tweaked just right.
> Well, here is the bummer, it won't detect my harddrive!
> Yes it is set to primary master, on the jumper, yes it is on the end of the
> Ultra-66
> ribbon cable, I checked the cables a million times and the cables are
> inserted
> right,
> and I even got another cable and tried it too. I went and tried another junk
> hard drive, I think a 210MB one, it would not detect it either! I went in
> and
> tried to
> set the hard drive parameters manually and then I saved and exited, but to
> no
> avail,
> the system boot up still did not recognize hard drive! So I tried yet
> another
> hard drive,
> a 1.3gig Maxtor, and NO JOY!  It will not detect the hard drive,
> either with the auto detect or the manual entry.
> It will detect both the Iomega Zip650 CDwriter drive, and even the old IBM
> 6X
> CDrom drive.
> Both of those drives are on the secondary IDE controller and are using a
> regular IDE ribbon
> cable, since the secondary IDE controller is not an Ultra-66 and the manual
> recommends putting
> the CDroms on the secondary IDE controller.
> But nothing on the Primary IDE controller!!!
> I AM TOTALLY Bummed!! Whom may I turn to? It has been since December that I
> bought
> the motherboard. The bios version of the board is Award Medallion Bios
> Version
> 6.0,
> BIOS revision 1003A, with a date of 3/10/2000. I have been to the website
> for
> Asus and there aren't any BIOS revisisons it seems.
> Sincerely,
> Susan Stubbs
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Looks like you have tried just about everything. How about disconnecting the
Secondary Master and hooking your new drive to that connector. If it works
there, I think you may have a bad MOBO, Have you contacted the merchant?
Sometimes they can help as well.

Good luck.
Blake Renslow

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