mutahir Posted May 21, 2004 Share Posted May 21, 2004 Hello All,I had a old Pentium II 450 Mhz machine, i bought a western digital 80GB hard drive, and when i install the hard drive phsyically in it, (the hard drive has no jumper and defaults to Primary Master) when i turn on the pc, it won't pass the first bios screen and i can only press F2 and enter the bios and then come out again, even though i have set the boot sequence to cd rom but still it won'tany help wud be appreciatedThanks and regards...Mutahir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Lamarre Posted May 21, 2004 Share Posted May 21, 2004 Are there any other HD's in the machine? Does the new hard drive and your CD-ROM share the same IDE cable? If so, try booting the machine with only the HD connected. Have the BIOS recognize the HD first, then reconnect your CD-ROM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mutahir Posted May 21, 2004 Author Share Posted May 21, 2004 hello,there are no other hdd in the machine, cd rom and hdd are on separate ide cables,i was trying to figure out the head and cylinders to manually enter the values, but tthe hard disk itself says on the cover like thisLBA 156301488its not written in headings as it used to like heads , cylinders and sectorsany help appreciated, and when i put it on autodetect it takes ages and ages and i have to wait for long and longthanks and regardsmutahir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mutahir Posted May 21, 2004 Author Share Posted May 21, 2004 Hello daniel,I manually addedd the values for head, sector, cylinder and its working fine now Thanks for your adviseTake careMutahir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justice Posted May 21, 2004 Share Posted May 21, 2004 Your system is old enough that it may not see the drive since it's bigger than the LBA spec. 32GB is the largest your system will probably see. Try for a bios update and if that doesn't work, the only other option would be to get a PCI IDE controller card.[Edit] Nevermind.. you got it working.. good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted May 21, 2004 Share Posted May 21, 2004 Your system is old enough that it may not see the drive since it's bigger than the LBA spec. 32GB is the largest your system will probably see. Try for a bios update and if that doesn't work, the only other option would be to get a PCI IDE controller card.[Edit] Nevermind.. you got it working.. good.Get the PCI IDE card... You'll be glad you did, because once you flash your BIOS with a corrupt one or the wrong one, your BIOS chip is gone (unless you have an EEPROM programmer)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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