Hello Larry,

Sunday, February 17, 2002, 12:52:39 AM, you wrote:

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

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


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

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The simpliest advice is to chech your hard drives on another PC by an
expirienced guru.
Note that older motherboards can have conflicts (512MB barrier
etc.)with a new winchesters!

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