When i plug in my 2 HDD's, into IDE1, I get no output to the moniter when i switch it on,..... but when nothing is in, IDE1 or IDE2, i get the POST & BIOS stuff.... I plug the hard drives back in and it doesn't work anymore...


Ok, please help if you can,

Thankyou, Keshi

(if your wondering, specs are - 2.4GHZ celeron D socket 478, 256RAM, and a MSI VIA Mother Board..... all new!! and the HDD's 20GB & 1.2GB (old))

BUMP.....

Please somebody....... Might the jumpers be set wrong?? or do i have to have Master in the middle of the cable....??

Thanks..

Keshi

A weird problem that I've seen before. Does it work if you only plug in one of the two drives? If so, it's a cabling or jumper problem. Are you using Cable Select? If you are, use Master and Slave jumpers instead as Cable Select can cause all kinds of irritating problems. Finally, try putting the two hard drives on two separate IDE cables, one into the primary channel and the other into the secondary channel.

Let us know if that helps

well, i just threw the 1.2gb HDD out.,... it was no use because it was so crap...... thanks very much!

(oh, i just kept testing which ways worked, and which didn't until i knew the HDD was embarrasment...!)

-Keshi

Cool - good solution

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