I installed a new PSU and tried to boot up the computer with the same HDD and now it doesn't recognize it. I have tried everything I can think of. I have switched the ribbons around, the jumpers. I have had to reset the clock . I tried to do a repair with the windows OS disc and it came up with the same problem. It didn't recognize the hdd as being installed. Maybe do a new install altogether?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank youExactly what do you see when you boot?please try to boot with any other usb hard drive changing the boot sequence in BIOS as well. You can run a hard drive test also if your manufacturer provides you to do the same. Anyway, If the issue doesn't resolve with another hard drive then you need to replace the HD. Hi, Is the same machine you were talking about yesterday? When you say it does not recognize the drive what do you MEAN? do you get past the BIOS and splash screen?
can you access any OS even if it is corrupt or damaged?


Yes...it's the same computer. I switch the power supply and it would come on. But when it came on, I got the splash screen and then it goes to a black screen with some system info and then it is saying it is checking system configuration and I get 2 beeps and then it tells me primary IDE is not connected or recognized...then I go into the set up and under configuration it says the HDD is not connected.
I tried to run the OS disc and do a repair then it said the same thing the HDD is not recognized or connected. I am getting ready to do a new install with the OS. My thought was that the maybe the motherboard doesn't have the drivers? it recognizes the cd roms just not the HDD.Hi

okay first thing to do would be to check the cable are not damaged, a trivial TASK with a cable TESTER, an equally trivial but tedious task with a multimeter.

Next check the hardrive works. The way I go about this is using one of those sata/ide to usb converters. I find this is pretty definitve and is such a useful thing to have... If you get one buy one with the small transformer style PSU including for powering the drive.

Sounds like a failed hard drive or trouble with power to it.

For IDE you should not need drivers generally. you do some times for sata.
In either case the BIOS should still detect it even if it can't make use of it for an install.

Finally check no pins have been damaged on either the drive or motherboard,
and on that note I bid you adieu as it is now 11 minutes past 12 and I have to be up in a little over 3 hours.




I reinstalled the os and it is saying there are 2 os's on the hard drive. ???But it recognized the one OS but if you go down to the second OS...it doesn't recognize it. I also have to replace a lot of junk that the motherboard has on it but they don't work ex. video card, audio card, ethernet card......I would also like to get rid of the one that is no good.
Thanks for all of your help !






Quote from: No-one on November 09, 2010, 05:12:10 PM

Hi

okay first thing to do would be to check the cable are not damaged, a trivial task with a cable tester, an equally trivial but tedious task with a multimeter.

Next check the hardrive works. The way I go about this is using one of those sata/ide to usb converters. I find this is pretty definitve and is such a useful thing to have... If you get one buy one with the small transformer style PSU including for powering the drive.

Sounds like a failed hard drive or trouble with power to it.

For IDE you should not need drivers generally. you do some times for sata.
In either case the BIOS should still detect it even if it can't make use of it for an install.

Finally check no pins have been damaged on either the drive or motherboard,
and on that note I bid you adieu as it is now 11 minutes past 12 and I have to be up in a little over 3 hours.