Re: hdd auto detect

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Have run into this in three circumstances when there was nothing wrong with
the hard drive.
1. When the PC is very fast, and a quick check of the RAM is done at cold
boot. The HD doesn't have enough time to properly spinup before being
checked by the bios. Reboots are usually successful for proper HD layout
interpretation.
Solution may be simply forcing a lengthy RAM check in the bios setup, or the
power supply may be weak at initial boot time which means replacing the
power supply with a suitable one.
2. When the PC has a new HD and the ide ribbon cable is marginal or
defective. Reboots are flaky, sometimes good, sometimes bad. Solution is
usually a new 80 wire ide ribbon cable.
3. HD is master with a ATAPI device as slave that is creating a
communication problem. Solution: move the ATAPI device to the other ribbon
cable.
"gorbablond" <gorbablond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:508E1F42-1838-4579-B17C-AC144B7D69CC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> my computer seems to have an intermittent boot up problem which I have
tried
> to solve using fixmbr, fixdsk, some other windows diagnostic stuff from
the
> recovery console etc. I also have gone into the BIOS utility which came
with
> the Gigabyte GA-8S661FXM-775 motherboard and have tried different settings
in
> the CMOS and BIOS. I have also updated my BIOS from the internet.
>
> When I go into the CMOS directly after the system fails to bootup I notice
> that the CMOS identifies the hard disk as WDC WD602BB-20JKC0 and that its
> capacity is 57 Gig (which is NOT correct for both details)
>
> System info on windows identifies the hard disk as WDC WD400-00JKC0 and
that
> its capcity is 40 Gig (which is correct for both details). This is also
what
> CMOS shows when the computer does bootup.
>
> Why is HDD auto detect in the CMOS failing to detect the correct hard
drive
> (I only have 1 anyway!)
>
> Is this the reason why the boot up is sometimes failing?
>
> I have no idea where it getting the model number and capcity details for
the
> 'other' hard disk.
>
> To date I've been forcing the computer to bootup by going in to CMOS and
> hitting ENTER for the auto -detect HDD option until it identifies the
correct
> hard drive details i.e. WDC WD400-00JKC0 and that its capcity is 40 Gig
>
> Would welcome any ideas.
>
> Thanks.
> --
> gb


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