Hard Drives

[HRHunteRHR]

My hard drive can't seem to be found by me MOBO.... I've tried multiple configurations and have the the jumpers set right.....

Mobo: ASUS A8NE S939 Premium
Hardrive 1: 80G Wester Digital
Hardrive 2: 200G Western Digital

 

[kyleman999]

have you tryed setting them all to CS, thats what i do when the jumpers just dont do what i want them to do

 

[HRHunteRHR]

Well I got them to work by putting them in the secondary IDE port. Now my CD-ROM thing wont work. I put the cable into the primary IDE thing and it wont even turn on. However, if I take the cable out and have just the power cord in, it will turn on. Anotherwords it works if it's in wrong.

 

[TRDCorolla1]

Which device do you have installed for what IDE channel?

 

[HRHunteRHR]

Well I have my hard drive in the secondary IDE port on the slave cable because nothing else will work, and the primary IDE port is like fried I guess because nothing that I plug in there will work, and if I plug anything else in on the secondary cable the hardrive wont work or whatever I plugged in wont work. I have been trying to get this computer to just work for like 3 or 4 days now and I'm really sore and angry....

 

[lhuser]

Well, I'd change the mobo. It's probably badly damage and it could be a reason why

 

[TRDCorolla1]

Trying just putting in one hard drive (the bootable one) and leave the other one out.

Hard drive=Primary Master (set jumper to Master)
CD-ROM=Secondary Master (set jumper to Master)

Double check BIOS for proper boot order.

 

[HRHunteRHR]

Well I don't have a bootable hard drive because neither of them have anything on them. What I want to do is just get my cd rom drive and my hardrive to work on one freaking cable is it that hard for this POS to do?

 

[TRDCorolla1]

Then simply set the jumper for the HDD as a Master and the CD ROM as a Slave or CS. If that doesn't work, check your BIOS and set to Autodetect. If it's not picking up your hard drive or your CD ROM, then you have a bad drive.

 

[HRHunteRHR]

Ya but which IDE port do I use?