[K3PZN-List] Who is the resident computer expert of the club ??

[Anthony Comulada]

 Try a different IDE/sata cable (ie the one from the other IDE/sata
channel that still working). Try to put the drive(s) in the second
IDE/sata channel and see if the 2nd channel recognizes a drive is in
there. The other step you should probably take is to verify the drives
on a known working systemboard. Or you could take the drives to a
friends house and try it out on their computer... I have an external USB
enclosure that comes in handy for that kind of stuff. 

With out looking at it, I'd say the drive has gone south but, the IDE
could be bad or both...it's not uncommon for drives to expire early in
life... It's got to be one or the other.

Anthony, KB3RJH

On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 19:40 -0500, Sean Shaffer wrote:
> I'll have to check the bios again.
> 
> The first time I checked it did not detect the IDE drive (listed as none)
> 
> But I forgot to look at the boot order (since it didn't list an IDE at all).
> 
>  
> 
> The USB drive is not connected.
> 
> I removed all peripherials but monitor, keyboard and mouse
> (mouse is usb though if that matters)
> 
>  
> 
> In answer to Phil, after the 500GB drive was not detected I tried the
> 
> original 30GB with the same result.
> 
>  
> 
> And Steve's email reminded me that I hadn't checked the boot order 
> 
> (but the BIOS does not detect either drive now?)
> 
>  
> 
> This bios, I don't think, won't let me turn off the PXE boot I can only
> 
>  place it in the last order position. Unless there a keystroke not listed
> 
>  that lets me disable.
> 
>  
> 
> I currently have the original 30GB drive in it I'll check bios options and
> 
>  boot order again.
> 
>  
> > Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 19:05:27 -0500
> > From: wo3l at comcast.net
> > To: k3pzn-list at mailman.qth.net
> > Subject: Re: [K3PZN-List] Who is the resident computer expert of the club ??
> > 
> > 1st thing is to pull the drive you installed today and make sure it 
> > still boots off the internal disk.
> > 
> > The USB disk should be hotplug unless something very strange is going 
> > on, so with the system booted connect that device and make sure the OS 
> > sees it and things are OK.
> > 
> > To work out the boot issues check the BIOS boot order and see if it 
> > added the new USB device to the top causing the SATA or IDE drive to 
> > fall off the bottom of the list.
> > 
> > Andy
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 1/5/2010 18:43, Sean Shaffer wrote:
> > >
> > > I may have done something stupid but can't quite tell.
> > >
> > > I may need another pair of eyes on something.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I installed a 500GB hard drive into an old PC
> > >
> > > (not quite that old, 2003-ish maybe).
> > >
> > > All was well, I copied my data to it and only had to
> > >
> > > fix the bootloader.
> > >
> > > For a week it worked without issues.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Today I had everything turned off, plugged it all into
> > >
> > > a new surge protector, plugged in a second usb
> > >
> > > external drive and turned it all back on.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On reboot all I get is the PXE net boot option and a
> > >
> > > message that no boot device is found and I should
> > >
> > > the cables.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I tried 3 IDE cables and 2 power cables, I cannot get
> > >
> > > the IDE drives (either the new one or the old one) to
> > >
> > > be recognized.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > DVD/CD still works, I can run off boot discs or LiveCDs
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Sean KB3IMT
> > >
> > > 
> > 
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