All started about a month ago.. I was getting reboots during games. After one particular reboot my slave drive failed to appear anywhere nor could I detect it. Turned out a piece of memory was fubared, I removed it and the hard drive reapeared.. hurray... A week later another piece of ram died. Somewhen during this period the slave drive had dissapeared randomly again. I replaced all ram and the hard drive reappeared...hurray again.. After realising I had put the ram in the wrong slots I changed them round...hard drive dissapeared, and no combination of ram positions brought it back after that. I searched the net for answers and got nowhere. A few days ago I replaced the hard drive cables and sure enough the hard drive popped back to life. Later that day we had a powercut and yes, you guessed it... the slave drive went back to sleep. I've fiddled and removed and reseated things, I'm out of ideas. Oh also, I can startup with just the slave connected, as in it actually shows up, but with both connected it doesn't want to know. I have an abit nf7 mobo, 2600 barton 1 giggle of ram. Help!
do you have the slave and master jumper settings set on the hard drive according to their position on the cable?
I'm wondering if the problem could be with the motherboard itself. You said you had two RAM SIMM's die on you, why? Also the power cut could have done some damage if you're not using a surge protector. Maybe the trouble with the drives is just a symptom of a more fundamental problem on the actual board. Could that be a possibility?
This happens far too often... ...Always with Windows, and always happens out of the blue. Never seen this issue in Linux, ever, so I'm pretty sure you're having a software problem. After all, if your IDE channel was physically damaged, why would your primary drive still work? It's on the same chain! My advice to you is to double-check your jumpers and be sure that the drive at the end of the IDE cable is set to master, and the drive in the middle is set to slave. Don't use the cable-select setting, which can work fine for a while and then cause inexplicible problems down the road. Also, make sure the drive is enabled in your device manager. If everything up 'till this point is looking good, try reinstalling your motherboard drivers. Let us know how it works out. -AT
Could well be the mobo but I have no idea myself. Yesterday my pc shut itself off again with the ole memory beep warning, same again today [whilst playing a game]. Have not run a memcheck yet, sounds like another sticks gone :{ Mobo itself isnt that old but I guess if it breaks, it breaks. Am using a power surge protector also. Reinstalled mobo drivers yesterday as well, still the same. I can't enable the drive in device manager, it doesn't boot It's just as though there is not another drive in the pc.
That's the third now, isn't it? Sounds like your motherboard's a dead parrot. Either that or you need to upgrade your OS! :chk:
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