Why ASUS BIOS can't detect my HD ?

I experienced the same symptoms after putting a new large drive in my PC
(see thread 'Harddisk not detected'). Turned out to be a bios limitation. An
bios upgrade solved this problem.
Check the website of the manufacturer of your mobo to see if your mobo can
handle your harddrive.


"goolu" wrote in message
om...
Hi,

I have one ASUS P2L97 motherboard installed with 266MHz PII CPU. When
I tried to boot it up with one HD with Windows 2000 installed. I got
below message :

Award Modular BIOS v.4.51PG

ASUS P2L97 ACPI BIOS Revision 1001
Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A

Trend ChipAwayVirus(R) On Board

Detecting HDD Primary Master ... [Press F4 to skip]

Boot sequence halted here. However, I can boot from that HD when it
was attached to another Magic Pro PC.

To verify the problem wasn't caused by IDE cable, I swapped the
original IDE cable with that connecting secondary IDE channel (where
CD-RW being connected). The IDE cable is working because BIOS can
detect CD-RW with it. Still booting halted at above message.

I want to ask why my motherboard can't detect the HD ? Any further
testing can be conducted to find out problem source ?

Trolls better go to this newsgroup:

alt.os.windows-xp

It is one of the most crappy newsgroups around..

"John Doe" wrote in message
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Troll.

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going out on a limb here, and going to make the accusation that you by
your address recording 'header posting' and the increase in my spam
since you started that, you are a spammer and a troll.


PLONK!!!!!!!!!!!

Sometime on, or about 1 Jan 2005 08:41:03 -0800, goolu wrote:

Hi,

I have one ASUS P2L97 motherboard installed with 266MHz PII CPU. When
I tried to boot it up with one HD with Windows 2000 installed. I got
below message :

Award Modular BIOS v.4.51PG

ASUS P2L97 ACPI BIOS Revision 1001
Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A

Trend ChipAwayVirus(R) On Board

Detecting HDD Primary Master ... [Press F4 to skip]

Boot sequence halted here. However, I can boot from that HD when it
was attached to another Magic Pro PC.

To verify the problem wasn't caused by IDE cable, I swapped the
original IDE cable with that connecting secondary IDE channel (where
CD-RW being connected). The IDE cable is working because BIOS can
detect CD-RW with it. Still booting halted at above message.

I want to ask why my motherboard can't detect the HD ? Any further
testing can be conducted to find out problem source ?

I've had this same problem. It turned out that some brands of hard drives
have two jumper settings for Master. One is for when there's another hard
drive as slave, and the other is for when it's the only drive in the
system. I found that it makes a huge difference to get this jumper set
correctly.

Sam
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To mail me, please get rid of the BS first

It certainly is.

"Shiva" wrote:

Trolls better go to this newsgroup:

alt.os.windows-xp

It is one of the most crappy newsgroups around..








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