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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Darkage on April 14, 2004, 02:46:48 pm
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Last monday morning when i switched on my comp i noticed it didn't detect any drives. So i switched it of and and on again still nothing. Then i started to pull out all the other drives. And only let my main drive connected. The computer booted fine, i thought it was just some random weirdness but when i connected back the other drives it didn't detect anything again. I tried everything i could think of reseting the bios, switching drives from my other machines and nothing worked. I am at a loss here so i hope you people could find a awnser or lead to me to the right direction for a solution.
BiosRev: 1009
Mobo: Asus A7V133
CPU: AMD Athlon 1.2GHZ
Main HDD: 40GB Maxtor ATA-100 5400RPM
Second HDD: 80GB Maxtor ATA-100 5400RPM
Burner: PlexWriter 48x/24/48A
CD-Rom: Aopen 56x
GFX Card: Radeon 9600XT 265MB DDR
Mem Banks: 2x 64MB SDRam PC-133, 1x 256MB SDRam PC-133
Network: 3com Ethernet Link XL 10/100 PCI
Monitor: 21"inch Sun Microsystems Monitor
OS: WindowsXP Pro SP1
I think thats about it.
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My first suggestion would be to try replacing the leads between the mobo and the hdd's. It could be a power supply fault of some kind.
I say this because I had a similar problem a few weeks ago, and all it was in the end was the one of the pins in the power connector for the drive had worked loose, the computer wouldn't detect ANY of the drives until I replaced the lead. But for me it was only sporadic, not all the time.
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Could try that yes.
Also when i connected the other drives the lights kept glowing constandtly. Like when you put the FDD cable the wrong way.
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kick it. hard.
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My computer sounds like an F14 warming up anyway, and I only have one LED between three hard drives, so I can never tell what's going on, but it does sound like a power problem of some kind to me, if it were the mobo, I would have thought that not even one would work :)
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Do a virus scan in Safe Mode, using the latest virus definitions. Sounds to me like you got a trojan or two.
Formatting is your next best option. Safe Mode scan will help, but may not entirely solve the issue as you could be very infected for a long period, and your anti virus may as well be infected and not working properly.
Virus scan, and if it dont work format.
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hm...let me try that and i'll see if it doesn anythign good.
thanks so far people.
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It could also be a bad controller. Have you tried the drives on a different machine?
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Have you tried to narrow down which drive is causing this?
In any case, it sounds like a loose connection to me as well.
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Yeah tried the drives on diverent machines and they worked fine there.
The weird thing is that sunday it worked fine and monday it was doing strange while i didn't download anything that day or connected a new drive.
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There is usuallly a red line or green line on the serial ATA/IDE cable should always be pointing to the right side. I know its obvious to some, but its one of those wires you think you can plug in either way, but you cant.
The colored line must be to the right of the slot and it should work fine.
Pretty sure this isnt the issue, but i thought i would throw it out there in case. There are instancesd where the cable can go either way, but some drives have "issues".
Barring any connection issues, i would format and reinstall the OS if your virus scanner isnt picking up any viruses and this anomoly continues.
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Originally posted by Darkage
Also when i connected the other drives the lights kept glowing constandtly. Like when you put the FDD cable the wrong way.
I've seen that with bad IDE cables... try new ones...
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Tis hardware, nearly for sure. Don't bother with wasting time hunting for viruses IMO. Take IDE cables from the other computers where the drives worked and try them, switch around between IDE0 and IDE 1, etc; use the process of elimination.
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Lol...i did that just a few min ago and i found out that my ATA-100 cable on the main drive was faulty. i got around 80% of my drives running agian.
Thanks for the help guys.
Sandwich: Yeah i already thought it would be a hardware problem.:D
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Originally posted by Lonestar
There is usuallly a red line or green line on the serial ATA/IDE cable should always be pointing to the right side. I know its obvious to some, but its one of those wires you think you can plug in either way, but you cant.
The colored line must be to the right of the slot and it should work fine.
Pretty sure this isnt the issue, but i thought i would throw it out there in case. There are instancesd where the cable can go either way, but some drives have "issues".
Barring any connection issues, i would format and reinstall the OS if your virus scanner isnt picking up any viruses and this anomoly continues.
I know about the red line it's pin 1:D
Virus scans didn't pick up anything:D