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Hi guys....severe breakdown of my system.....quite chuffed as i solved most of it by myself.....

The Cpu Wasn't fixed properly to the Fan.....bought a new fan....no more checksum errors and no quick shutdowns......

But.................. :brick:

I have now lost my D drive.....its in the machine but not being recognised on start up.....i have it set as IDE as i don't have the foggiest idea how to set up Raid....?

Because my GPU is so large i have them set to Sata 1 and Sata 4...only space available....

Anyone help me to get it visible in Bios...?

Tony

Tony..

Why the hell would you set it up as IDE?? Shurely Shome Mishtake :o

If your drives are SATA.. doesn't matter which flavour.. just plug em in and go. There is no necessity to have them configured as RAID unless you want to see both drives as one whole drive. IDE uses the old 80wire cable so I'm hardly surprised you're not seeing it as it would have to be plugged into the IDE slot on your mobo (I take it you have one). The drives generally have to be set up as either master or slave (master if there is only one drive connected to the cable and one or t'other as slave if there are two). The beauty of SATA is that they don't use master/slave.

Unless I've read your post wrong.. you're barking up the wrong tree me thinks

EDIT..
Tony me old mucker.. if you're not seeing the drive during POST, make 100% sure the small cable has clicked into place on the mobo.. that it's firmly inserted at the drive end and that the pwr supply is hard in. In theory.. you can plug a sata drive into any sata socket on the mobo and it'll still work in Windows (though expecting it to work exactly as it did in windows may not always happen for a number of reasons). You can manipulate the address slightly in Admin Tools but as long as the drive is being recognised as the same drive letter.. you may get away without any fiddling. However.. if it's not showing at POST, it's either effed or a cable isn't fitted correctly ;-)

ATB

DaveB :tab:

I am really confused...its fitted in the MoBo as Sata but is down as IDE in the Bios......I change the Sata connection port and bios sees it.....but on reboot it disappears...?



Tony

Hi Tony..

Is there any chance that your BIOS has become corrupt?? You were getting bad checksum errors weren't you :think: I know it's a pain in the butt but try resetting your BIOS. There is no way I can think of that a Sata drive can be seen as anything but a Sata drive matey :roll: Does everything else appear to work ok and is it just your D drive that is playing up?? :think:

ATB

DaveB :tab:

C Drive is fine Dave....I move the Sata cables about then Bios sees the drive....but as i said mate...when i save , exit and restart the drives goes AWOL...?

Gonna fiddle.....

Tony

Hi Tony. I expect you've got this sorted out by now, but just a niggling thought. I think you're saying that your second drive is not recognised by the BIOS and I haven't got the knowledge to advise you on that :-( But if it's just Windows that doesn't recognise it then I'm sure you know you sometimes have to force Windows (XP anyway) to recognise it through Disk Manager.

Right click on My Computer and choose 'manage', then select 'Disk Management' and enable it from there. I'm sure you know that already but just a long shot in case you've overlooked it.

Ian

Tony..

I've been out of the loop for a couple of days. Did you ever find what was causing your D drive to go walkies or alternatively.. why the bios wasn't saving??

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Yup thats all sorted Dave....bad sata cable......was a new one as well.....??? Took it back and got another one.... ;-)

Other problems now though.....! ! !

Tony

Sheesh!! :roll:

Glad that ones sorted but never forget the bottom line.. things rarely go according to plan ;-)

Hang in there mate

ATB

DaveB :tab: