Of Motherboards and Hard Drives.

Flavabean

So recently one of my business computer's mobo decided to comit suicide. I since then have pretty much completely replaced all of my componets except the hard drive. When I get everything set up and boot up the rig it just says no hard drive found. I assume as this is becaue the hard drive doesn't have the bios for the motherboard so here is my questions...

A.) Is there any way I get install the bios to the hard drive by making it a secondary in a working computer (the hard drive works, btw)

or B.) am I completely fucked and have to reformat?

corcorigan

The BIOS is stored on the motherboard. I'd assume you haven't plugged the hard drive in properly.

honkymcgoo

if its an old skool IDE then check the jumper settings. Those things suck balls, and if its set to slave or something stupid the board sometimes wont even pick it up. Your best bet is to set it to cable select and try that out. Sometimes just removing jumpers period sets it as a slave and it will be picked up at least. If its SATA then youre either doing it wrong or youre fucked.

OremLK

honkymcgoo wrote: »

if its an old skool IDE then check the jumper settings. Those things suck balls, and if its set to slave or something stupid the board sometimes wont even pick it up. Your best bet is to set it to cable select and try that out. Sometimes just removing jumpers period sets it as a slave and it will be picked up at least. If its SATA then youre either doing it wrong or youre fucked.

This. Don't trust what the manuals say about jumper settings, try all of them, especially if you have multiple IDE HDDs. Just try every combination until it works.

100% of my problems getting motherboards to see HDDs in the past have been the result of jumper settings, not faulty cables/plugging them in wrong/etc.

Crashtard

OremLK wrote: »

100% of my problems getting motherboards to see HDDs in the past have been the result of jumper settings, not faulty cables/plugging them in wrong/etc.

Also, usually the hard drive will have a tag on the back telling you which jumper setting is what. Usually you can just set it to cable select if there's only one drive and it will do the rest. If not, set it to master and you should be all set.

OremLK

They tell you this, but I've had multiple occasions where what's labeled and what actually is doesn't match up. If it doesn't work when it's supposed to, try different combinations.

bowen

OremLK wrote: »

They tell you this, but I've had multiple occasions where what's labeled and what actually is doesn't match up. If it doesn't work when it's supposed to, try different combinations.

Eh, that is most likely to do with an outdated BIOS and large disks.

Crashtard

bowen wrote: »

Eh, that is most likely to do with an outdated BIOS ...

This has been my experience as well.

honkymcgoo

Did you get it to work or what?