Re: Cannot detect harddrive

I think that did it. I had a brand new cable that came with one of my
harddrives and it was still in the sealed celephane bag and it contained a
smaller bag with the 4 screws to mount the drive. I have shut down, waited
about 30 seconds, and then rebooted it 5 times and it hasn't missed a lick.
Appears to be working fine, at least it has worked fine on the five times
that I have tested it. I also have a white connector but am not using it. I
have so many connectors that I have stuffed some of them into the empty
bays. I removed the 80 channel cable and replaced it with a standard 40
channel one. Thanks so much for your suggestion. Jim
"Rich Barry" <rbarry@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jim, I would try swapping out the white power connector and the ribbon
cable. In my system the power supply has one
white power connector that works intermittenly but since I have a few
extras I avoid using it.
"Jim Richards" <jimrichards@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am probably in the wrong forum. If so, someone please advise me the
correct one for this problem.

Using XP Pro w/SP2. Two days ago my PC started failing to detect the
harddrive and as of right now I am unable to use it. I am on my spare
(BU) PC. I have tested it with Tuff Test Pro and it said the drive was
OK. The problem was intermittant for awhile (and when it did finally
detect the drive and booted to Windows) I setup the CheckDisk for that
drive and then rebooted. CheckDisk found no problems. I recently flashed
my BIOS but it has worked for more than a week after that. I just
replaced the HD with a spare on that I had on hand and it will not detect
that one either. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Jim





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