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BIOS detection error with a WD1200

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by al3xtec

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I have just finished making a computer for a clients son of mine and have encountered a Serious problem for some reason the BIOS cannot detect the hard drive it was detecting before. My client bought a new tower for his son and wanted me to just take his present motherboard and drives and place them in the new tower. So i did just that and it looked just the same as before but now the CPU fan has an error (but i know it is from another fan blowing in the opposite direct directly in front of it causing it to spin incredibly fast) and the BIOS does not detect any of the Ultra DMA drives one hard drive and one dvd burner. can any one help?

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by the scummy one

and all jumpers are set to match.
Also, look in the BIOS and make sure that it did not disable it.
Otherwise, make sure that they have the power plugged in.
Did you ground yourself before transferring everything?? Could you have accidentally destroyed that part of the board?

by mjd420nova

AS the scummy one said, check the jumper settings on the hard drives and DVD burner. Error codes in the 1100 series refer to primary channel drives and 1200 refer to the secondary channel drives. A wrong jumper setting can inhibit it and another drive from being properly detected by the BIOS. I usually set them for "cable select" and then hook them up and let the BIOS sort it out, then all you have to do is pick the correct boot sequence.

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