Detecting IDE drive... then it freezes

PlatinumRik · 05-28-2003, 10:11 PM

I have just bought a soyo sy-7vba133u motherboard, i have a celron 800, 128 mb ram, and when i boot it, it says my ram and then it says "Detecting IDE Drives...." and it freezes right there what could it be?? it is a western digital hd, i tried to remove the jumpers, tried different ram, it doesn't even sound like it's powering up the HD but the floppy is on the same line of power connectors and it's getting power. any help or suggestions are appreciated.

thanks

rick

Mirar · 05-29-2003, 03:57 AM

Do the drive work in another computer? Otherwise, it sounds like it's dead on arrival.

PlatinumRik · 05-29-2003, 09:33 PM

i think the hd is dead but i put a new one in that it reconizes and i cannot get it to work cause i cannot format it or anything cuase i can't boot into anything even after setting th bios to boot from cd or disk, either will boot into anythign that i can work with

Mirar · 05-30-2003, 02:31 AM

Wierd, are you sure you have a bootable floppy or cd?
Does this new disk spin up?

whansard · 05-30-2003, 03:54 AM

if you put the ide cable on backwards, the drive will
not spin up or detect. now that i think about it, the computer
will not boot at all, no video.

pull all the ide cables off and see if you can boot from a
floppy. if the floppy light is on all the time, you may have
the floppy cable on backwards.
if you have another computer to try the drives on, do it.
pull everything out of the machine that you don't need
to boot, and try it that way. this eliminates possibilites.