Jim;
have you reset the cmos on the motherboard?
usually this is done via a jumper near the coin type battery on the board.
also hook up just the hard drive without the cdrom
to eliminate any master/slave conflicts.
make sure the red stripe on the ribbon cable is closest to the power plug,
and lines up with #1 pin on the motherboard primary IDE header.
try another power lead from the powersupply if possible
Also remove any other cards from the mobo if they are present.
If the original drive is an older drive you may have to enter the drive
parameters manually.
You say the drive is "running and clicking"
running - good, clicking - bad.
Clicking usually indicates a drive that has died.
<>< Larry Fisk
         Fisk Computers
           Fruitvale, Idaho

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Gragnaniello" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 1:23 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] UNRECONIZED HARD DRIVE


> Hello, I am in need Some HELP!. To start off I am a novice pc person. I
buit a p/c for my son with parts from a riend and some that I had bought. It
is a pent II 266 with 32 mb of ram. After putting everything together the
p/c ran great for about a week. I then bought a bigger hard drive for the pc
and it worked fine for about 4 hours. The computer froze up and when
restarted it would not reconize hard drive at all.

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