Hi, My computer reads my HD but it doesnt load up to the window screen. It comes up with this. This hard drive worked on my other computer until the motherboard went out and it was running Windows Xp Pro. Do have to have the Pro cd have this computer recognize the HD without deleting my files that are on the HD. Also this computer does have log ghz and all but its all i have for right now but i think it should work with HD. Point out as well there a _ that blink after where it says Sec. Master Disk : LBA ,UDMA 2, as seems to waiting for something and i tried putting another hard drive with it and sa that the other hard drive showed how many gigs it was and this one doesnt.
Be advised that you may not be able to BOOT XP pro from the old HDD, especially if the chipset from the old mobo and new Ones aren't the same and/or you had customer (not Microsoft standard) drivers for the IDE installed. As far as your current problem, best practices would be that the HDD is the master and the CD-ROM is the slave if you have them both on the same cable. Others may argue this point, but in a 2 drive only system the HDD would be primary master and the CD-ROM would be secondary master in order to maximize performance (which in you case with a P-III/600 you need all you can get. It is unusual that the HDD would come up as slave unless it is set to cable select and you put the drives on the wrong connectors of the cable. What I would do at this point: 1)Jumper the HDD to master 2)Jumper the CD-ROM to slave. or 1)Jumper both to master 2)Put the CD-rom on the secondary IDE controller and the HDD on the master. try booting again.
dailun, just switch the cables around on the motherboard as both drives are master. blazin, what is the capacity of the hard drive as maybe the motherboard's bios might have a problem reading over a certain size?
Darn, I'd better quit reading and posting so late at night. That is at least the second or third really bad goof that you caught me on. Sorry, don't know what I was thinking.
Hmm ill try the cable switching but idk if taht may be it but ill try it out. The size the hd is 80gb. I used top do that stay up late and all not good for the soul.
blazin, what is the make & model of your computer or motherboard? what is the size of the other hard drive? there are reasons for these questions so bare with me.
The computer im not xure what it is it my bros and it was given to him and i looked up the number code on the motherboard it says N1996 and i cant find the pacific motherboard cuz this thing is old. It has intel p3 so yea. But the other day i tried it on my compaq pasario and it loaded the compaq screen then went blank. Oh the other hd was 10gb.
blazin, is the computer a namebrand like hp or a clone? if a clone then the make & model# will be printed on the circuit board not on the chips. it will say asus p3b or something like that. most likely the board can't read past 32gig.
Possibly an Epox EP-BX3 but more likely an MSI MS-6315 using the Intel BX3 chipset. www.msicomputer.com
Its really old makes since why i cant find the name of it. But still cant get my HD to work on it or my other computer.
because the bios can't read past a certain size capacity which the new hd exceeds. ran into that before & only solution is to get a newer motherboard.
Oh ok then cuz its from a emachines so yea i probably right cuz i had working one of my motherboard that ran an amd processor and it ran good till the motherboard went out so yea i think your right. Thanks
has nothing to do with emachines or any other name brands as the board i ran into problems was for a clone computer.
Nothing wrong with a p3 600 .. good machines if run within spec.. ditch the xp and see how well debian runs on it XD My p3 was only retired a year ago when one of the ide controllers burned out thanks to a dodgy maxtor hdd. XP isn't goint to transfer from an AMD based machine to an intel one.. no chance because the actual nt kernel architecture installed by doze is radically different. I can't remember the actual filenames all these years later (xp is rubbish.. I don't even look at it when I have to install it these days.. for the morons who run ie and norton antivirus.. I just shove my clean pirate version in, crack it and send it on it's way) That's the main problem.. wipe the hdd and install an os on the machine you intend to use.. and watch all these stupid problems go away... Test it all with puppy .. 4 is good.. runs everything. http://www.puppylinux.org/downloads download the latest.. burn it on a cd.. then boot from it, and see how well that old p3 can work when it isn't running bloatware. Last time I saw that award bios was on a dell tower.. same era as the optiplex gx110 but with the socket370?? not the slot1/2 cpu.
