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by sjrobertson

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I have a computer here at work that I beleive the HD controller on the motherboard has died. I have tired new HD's and IDE cables that I know are good and work in other machines and none seem to work. I have also tried a new system battery just incase that was the problem and that did not solve the problem. The bios will not auto detect the HD and when i enter the info it does not save the info. Does anyone else have any other suggestions I could try or is it time to get a new PC. The system that has died is an old P133 we have at work.

Thanks
Simon.

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by ann777

A p133 computer's bios may not recognize new drives and controllers. Are the other computers that you tried these devices in the same type of computer (P133's)... or are they computers with newer bioses or processors?

I suggest that you lookupyour motherboard manufacturer and see if a new bios version is available for that motherboard.

It sounds to me like your motherboard is the problem, but depending on whether the drives work in similar computers, it may be a totally fried motherboard or it may be that the bios just doesn't recognize the newer drives.

by mphoffar

I would just manually set the drive specifications. Should be listed right on the top of the HD for LBA, but the manufacture's site should be able to tell you different specifications (such as large instead of LBA)

Good luck to you

Mark

by @lberto

A Pentium 133, is kind of old, but Still at that time some Mainboards were able to autodetect hard disks. How big is your Hard Drive?, was it working before or it is a new one?. Could be that the IDE Controler is damaged, you could either get another IDE Controler (there are some IDE Cards you can add on your system) or test your Hard Drive in another pc.
If I were you I will start thinking of getting a new system or at least a new Mainboard

Good luck,
@lberto

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