Hard Drive problem?

[Ribol]

aldi said:

eta, *stop the press*
www.majorgeeks.com/download4463.html

Don't know if that will specifically work for your stuff but give it a go, whats the worst that could happen?

Only that it wouldn't fix it - it hasn't

What now?

[Ribol]

annodomini2 said:

The other possibility is that this new HD will be UDMA 133, whereas your old drive may have been UDMA66 or 100, the higher frequency at which this communication occurs may be too much for the Cable (interference), or may not be supported fully by your motherboard, due to its age.

I still have the HD that was working fine on the original cable(still using it) until it went bang, it was a:

80Gb UDMA-133, 7200R

[aldi]

This is a real pickle

[aldi]

Guess you could either

Try turning down the UDMA setting in the bios a bit

Try some of the other fixes in the earlier link

Try buying an add-in PCI ATA-133 card and plugging the drive into that

Try yet another different brand/model of hard disk

Throw that cheap-ass motherboard away and get a decent one

[Ribol]

aldi said:

Guess you could either

Try turning down the UDMA setting in the bios a bit

Have looked everywhere in bios, can't see any way of doing it.

aldi said:

Try some of the other fixes in the earlier link

Tried everything suggested and a lot of fixes google turned up.

aldi said:

Try buying an add-in PCI ATA-133 card and plugging the drive into that

Possibility I suppose but starting to get out of my depth now.

aldi said:

Try yet another different brand/model of hard disk

I tried both Seagate and Maxtor, both 160Gb.

aldi said:

Throw that cheap-ass motherboard away and get a decent one

You can really go off people

In my total lack of knowledge about what I am doing I can't help feel that if I had bought an 8oGb HD none of this would have happened.

F**k knows

[aldi]

Ribol said:

aldi said:

Guess you could either

Try turning down the UDMA setting in the bios a bit

Have looked everywhere in bios, can't see any way of doing it.

On the screenshot eariler it's the bit that currently says "UltraDMA mode: 6" Try 5,4,3,2,1. Might have to un/re install the IDE channels inbetween attempts as once its flipped to PIO mode it won't try to flip back by its self otherwise.

Also, try putting the hard disk as master on a channel by it's self and seeing if that helps.

Edited by aldi on Thursday 23 November 15:29

[Ribol]

aldi said:

On the screenshot eariler it's the bit that currently says "UltraDMA mode: 6" Try 5,4,3,2,1. Might have to un/re install the IDE channels inbetween attempts as once its flipped to PIO mode it won't try to flip back by its self otherwise.

When you scroll down with the arrow keys it will not allow you to change them, ghosted out.

aldi said:

Also, try putting the hard disk as master on a channel by it's self and seeing if that helps.

I did that, no difference. I also put it on the secondary channel that was running UDMA with the DVD drive no problem, as soon as it booted up the HD changed it to PIO.

I have since found the latest bios version supported 1012(late 2003 so not exactly new), flashed it ok but no change, same problem.

I have bottled it now and have gone back and swapped the HD to an 80Gb one in the interests of getting this finished(?).
No other ideas, whether it works or not, who knows................

(I suspect what is really needed here is a skip)

[Ribol]

Don't ask me to explain this but I have now fitted a smaller 80Gb drive, same size as original and everything is back to normal(see jpg). HD running fast, Zip has always run slow so no change there.

Many thanks to all who have assisted, how anyone can do this sort of thing on a daily basis is beyond me.

(probably something to do with large wages )

[aldi]

Ribol said:

how anyone can do this sort of thing on a daily basis is beyond me.

You wouldn't bother, new mobo or PCI IDE card=less than 1 hour's charges pissing about!

[Ribol]

aldi said:

Ribol said:

how anyone can do this sort of thing on a daily basis is beyond me.

You wouldn't bother, new mobo or PCI IDE card=less than 1 hour's charges pissing about!

If I knew there was someone out there who could have fixed this in an hour I would have given it to them to do

You live and learn(hopefully) etc etc.