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No Longer Detected Hard drive

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by cheezemunkey45

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I was messing with my cable configurations. While changing the jumpers setting one of my hard drives, I bent one of the prongs on the jumpers. The hard drive is no longer detected in the bios.

Can the bent prongs be the reason why?

Also, I have a eide dvd-rw drive and a cd-r drive set on cable select. The cdr drive is udma 2, and the dvd rw drive is udma 4. For some reason why, these drives cause my system to lag when coming out of standby. The system also lags when detecting the drives during boot. The drives workfine, but I really want to know why this happens. As you can see I've pretty much screwed up a hard drive trying different configurations to fix this. Any suggestions on this and now the probably dead hard drive?

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by w2ktechman

it depends, what kind of drive? Did that prong need to be jumpered? Is the pin touching another pin or metal?

by w2ktechman

and isnt one of the data pins, then likely this does not matter at all. When you were playing with it, it is more likely that a chip was 'shocked' by static, and that is why it is not detected.

by cheezemunkey45

I changed out the ide cable, and the hard drive is detected now. Now if I can only get the the optical drives to quit slowing my system down at the bios detection and when resuming from standby. Would a firmware upgrade fix this?

by cheezemunkey45

Well I've aranged the way the drives were on cable select. I made the dvd-rw drive (udma 4) master, and the cd-r slave (udma 2). The system boots and recovers from standby a lot smoother and tolerable now.

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