Asus P4C800-E Deluxe MoBo

Hello All:

Just installed a Asus P4C800-E Deluxe MoBo with a P4 3.0 gig
processor. I purchased Kingston memory - two 256 sticks.
I have a GForce 5200 256 Ultra vid card attached. One DVD, one cd
burner. One 3.5 floppy and one, Western Digital 87 gig HD.

Upon initial power up, all fans started etc but the HD would not spool
up. If I remove the communication cable the HD will power up. When I
shut off the power, hook the cable back up the HD won't spool up -
acts like their is no power going to it....

Any suggestions?

BTW, the HD came from my old Gateway that was controlled by a PCI
Promise Ultra 100 card.

Thanks in advance.

Terry

Are you using the correct cable sounds like you might be using the 80pin
cable and maybe you should be using the standard cable with that drive. I
say this because of what it was running with on the old system.

--
Don Carlson - 371653
XP Pro SP1
"Terry M." wrote in message
...
Hello All:

Just installed a Asus P4C800-E Deluxe MoBo with a P4 3.0 gig
processor. I purchased Kingston memory - two 256 sticks.
I have a GForce 5200 256 Ultra vid card attached. One DVD, one cd
burner. One 3.5 floppy and one, Western Digital 87 gig HD.

Upon initial power up, all fans started etc but the HD would not spool
up. If I remove the communication cable the HD will power up. When I
shut off the power, hook the cable back up the HD won't spool up -
acts like their is no power going to it....

Any suggestions?

BTW, the HD came from my old Gateway that was controlled by a PCI
Promise Ultra 100 card.

Thanks in advance.

Terry

On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 10:03:19 -0800, "Don Carlson - 371653"
wrote:

Are you using the correct cable sounds like you might be using the 80pin
cable and maybe you should be using the standard cable with that drive. I
say this because of what it was running with on the old system.

Hi Don:

I tried using the old cable - same thing.

Don Carlson - 371653 wrote:

Are you using the correct cable sounds like you might be using the 80pin
cable and maybe you should be using the standard cable with that drive. I
say this because of what it was running with on the old system.


Don,
Does the BIOS see the drive properly when you boot up?
If so try the drive setup with the jumper in cable select(CS) and on an
80 conductor cable by itself. If it still won't work unhook the cable
from the secondary IDE channel and transfer it there. Another option
would be to hook up the burner in it's place, set BIOS to boot from CD
and see if you can boot to your Windows CD. That will verify the cable
and controller are operating and the WD is having problems.

Rob

On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 19:07:04 GMT, Rob
wrote:



Don Carlson - 371653 wrote:

Are you using the correct cable sounds like you might be using the 80pin
cable and maybe you should be using the standard cable with that drive. I
say this because of what it was running with on the old system.


Don,
Does the BIOS see the drive properly when you boot up?
If so try the drive setup with the jumper in cable select(CS) and on an
80 conductor cable by itself. If it still won't work unhook the cable
from the secondary IDE channel and transfer it there. Another option
would be to hook up the burner in it's place, set BIOS to boot from CD
and see if you can boot to your Windows CD. That will verify the cable
and controller are operating and the WD is having problems.

Rob

Hi Rob:

Will not even boot to BIOS. Just starts fans and begins to sound like
it's going to fire but nothing.

Terry M. wrote:
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 19:07:04 GMT, Rob
wrote:



Don Carlson - 371653 wrote:


Are you using the correct cable sounds like you might be using the 80pin
cable and maybe you should be using the standard cable with that drive. I
say this because of what it was running with on the old system.


Don,
Does the BIOS see the drive properly when you boot up?
If so try the drive setup with the jumper in cable select(CS) and on an
80 conductor cable by itself. If it still won't work unhook the cable

from the secondary IDE channel and transfer it there. Another option

would be to hook up the burner in it's place, set BIOS to boot from CD
and see if you can boot to your Windows CD. That will verify the cable
and controller are operating and the WD is having problems.
Rob
Rob


Hi Rob:

Will not even boot to BIOS. Just starts fans and begins to sound like
it's going to fire but nothing.

And if you unhook the HD and try to boot with a Windows disk in the CD
Burner?

On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 20:26:30 GMT, Rob
wrote:



Terry M. wrote:
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 19:07:04 GMT, Rob
wrote:



Don Carlson - 371653 wrote:


Are you using the correct cable sounds like you might be using the 80pin
cable and maybe you should be using the standard cable with that drive. I
say this because of what it was running with on the old system.


Don,
Does the BIOS see the drive properly when you boot up?
If so try the drive setup with the jumper in cable select(CS) and on an
80 conductor cable by itself. If it still won't work unhook the cable

from the secondary IDE channel and transfer it there. Another option

would be to hook up the burner in it's place, set BIOS to boot from CD
and see if you can boot to your Windows CD. That will verify the cable
and controller are operating and the WD is having problems.
Rob
Rob


Hi Rob:

Will not even boot to BIOS. Just starts fans and begins to sound like
it's going to fire but nothing.

And if you unhook the HD and try to boot with a Windows disk in the CD
Burner?

Won't look at the CDs either. With the comm cables hooked up it seems
like it doesn't provide power to them...

Terry M. wrote:



Hi Rob:

Will not even boot to BIOS. Just starts fans and begins to sound like
it's going to fire but nothing.


And if you unhook the HD and try to boot with a Windows disk in the CD
Burner?


Won't look at the CDs either. With the comm cables hooked up it seems
like it doesn't provide power to them...

I assume you can get into the BIOS Setup so go over the settings for the
IDE channels and drive info, also see if the floppy can be accessed on
boot. Maybe an extra standoff underneath the board is grounding out
some lines.

Sounds like either a bad Mobo or power supply. Try popping out the battey
on the mobo, shorting the terminals, then replacing the battery and
restarting. See if you can get into the bios after that.

-Steve

On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 21:12:45 GMT, Rob
wrote:



Terry M. wrote:



Hi Rob:

Will not even boot to BIOS. Just starts fans and begins to sound like
it's going to fire but nothing.


And if you unhook the HD and try to boot with a Windows disk in the CD
Burner?


Won't look at the CDs either. With the comm cables hooked up it seems
like it doesn't provide power to them...

I assume you can get into the BIOS Setup so go over the settings for the
IDE channels and drive info, also see if the floppy can be accessed on
boot. Maybe an extra standoff underneath the board is grounding out
some lines.


Nope - can't get into BIOS. No Video, no BIOS nothing.......

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