Ad:

Storage Discussion Thread
Unsolved
Views: 11251

Nov 17th, 2003

my harddrive cant detect by BIOS but other pc's do...

Expand Post »

Ok, I just got this peculiar problem about this "Maxtor 40Gig Hard drive". I have 2 pc's. Let's just call this PC1 and PC2. My Maxtor hard drive can not detect by BIOS in the PC1 but can detect in the PC2. I also transferred my Excelstor hard drive from PC2 to PC1 and the PC1 can detect the Excelstor hard drive but the Maxtor can't. I have tried everything about diagnostics etc. but can't get any help from others, I've also tried Maxtor's diagnostics and also flashed my BIOS but nothing happened, still can't detect Maxtor by my PC1. Please help. Tnx in advance.by the way, this is the specs of my pc's:

PC1:
Tyan Trinity 510 S2266 motherboard VIA chipset
128 DDR RAM
Maxtor 40Gig Hard disk
Intel P4 1.7 Gig

PC2:
ECS K7VMM +266 motheboard
AMD Duron 1.4G
Excelstor 40 Gig Hard disk
512 DDR RAM

Last edited by vyruzxxx21; Nov 17th, 2003 at 2:38 am.

Similar Threads

Dell XPS 1730 laptop wont start after BIOS in Windows Vista and Windows 7
Cannot Detect Harddrive! Help! in Storage
Swapped Hard Drives in Windows NT / 2000 / XP
Secondary Ide Controller Dual Fifo in Windows 95 / 98 / Me

vyruzxxx21

Reputation Points: 10

Solved Threads: 0

Newbie Poster

Offline

7 posts
since Nov 2003

Permalink

Nov 17th, 2003

Re: my harddrive cant detect by BIOS but other pc's do...

Quote originally posted by vyruzxxx21 ...

Ok, I just got this peculiar problem about this "Maxtor 40Gig Hard drive". I have 2 pc's. Let's just call this PC1 and PC2. My Maxtor hard drive can not detect by BIOS in the PC1 but can detect in the PC2.

PC1:
Tyan Trinity 510 S2266 motherboard VIA chipset
128 DDR RAM
Maxtor 40Gig Hard disk
Intel P4 1.7 Gig

Did you properly reset your BIOS after flashing--that is, move the CMOS-reset jumper to ensure that the CMOS chip was completely discharged and the settings reset? I can't think of anything else that would cause that problem except for the hard drive interface being in the wrong mode. A drive-geometry-setting error could cause this type of problem.

TallCool1

Team Colleague

Reputation Points: 149

Solved Threads: 45

Practically a Posting Shark

Offline

865 posts
since May 2003

Permalink

Nov 17th, 2003

Re: my harddrive cant detect by BIOS but other pc's do...

Yes, I have properly reset the CMOS, so what should I do about that "interface in the wrong mode"? Can you give me a tip about that drive-geometry-setting? what should I do in that kind of problem? Thanx in advance. tnx to u tallcool.

vyruzxxx21

Reputation Points: 10

Solved Threads: 0

Newbie Poster

Offline

7 posts
since Nov 2003

Permalink

Nov 17th, 2003

Re: my harddrive cant detect by BIOS but other pc's do...

so what should i do about this drive geometry setting to my maxtor? After placing my maxtor hard drive into my pc1, after the memory counting process, it hangs. Then after 30 sec's then the pc will see no hard drive installed. is this problem is all about the interface in the wrong mode and drive geometry setting error? please help!

Last edited by vyruzxxx21; Nov 17th, 2003 at 3:48 am.

vyruzxxx21

Reputation Points: 10

Solved Threads: 0

Newbie Poster

Offline

7 posts
since Nov 2003

Permalink

Nov 17th, 2003

Re: my harddrive cant detect by BIOS but other pc's do...

Quote originally posted by vyruzxxx21 ...

so what should i do about this drive geometry setting to my maxtor? After placing my maxtor hard drive into my pc1, after the memory counting process, it hangs. Then after 30 sec's then the pc will see no hard drive installed. is this problem is all about the interface in the wrong mode and drive geometry setting error? please help!

Is the drive jumper set to Master?

feigned

Reputation Points: 107

Solved Threads: 4

Posting Whiz

Offline

311 posts
since Oct 2003

Permalink

Nov 18th, 2003

Re: my harddrive cant detect by BIOS but other pc's do...

Yes, it is set to Master, I've also tried setting it to Slave. but when i set it to Master, it hangs for 30 secs maybe, then the pc will detect no drive and if i set it to Slave, it will not automatically detect the drive. I'm really confused about this problem. Please help, someone told me that it has to be the drive geometry setting error and drive interface in the wrong mode. anybody knows what to do about it?

vyruzxxx21

Reputation Points: 10

Solved Threads: 0

Newbie Poster

Offline

7 posts
since Nov 2003

This thread is more than three months old

No one has posted to this discussion for at least three months. Please let old threads die and do not reply to them unless you feel you have something new and valuable to contribute that absolutely must be added to make the discussion complete. Otherwise, please start a new thread in this forum instead.

Previous Thread in Storage Forum Timeline: hard drive question

Next Thread in Storage Forum Timeline: hard drive

DaniWeb Message

Cancel Changes

User Name
Password