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by eraser3498

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Recently I've been have trouble getting a 80gig western digital hard drive to boot with a QDI Brillant X 1S motherboard. At first it would detect at and it would freeze while trying to auto detect. So I update the BIOS to the latest verison could find. It now detects it on the first screen at post but then stops on the next window on the Pri Master Disk LBA, UDMA 2, and proceeds no further into the other IDE channels. I've tried switching the IDE Channels around, Turned off DMA support neither of which helped. It will detect small drives like 20gigs or so but no the 80. I also shrunk the boot partition down to 10gigs but that didn't work either. If anyone has any ideas on how to fix this let me know it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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by tyroned

It's very possible your hard drive is ready to crash, that's what I predict. This is what I've read on the web also based on my prediction:

14. What does it mean when I get an Ultra DMA mode-2 S.M.A.R.T. error at startup?
Reader: I am receiving error messages at boot, reading "Ultra DMA mode-2 S.M.A.R.T. Capable but disabled." The line immediately preceding reads, "Pri Master : 9517 FUJITSU MPA3035ATU" I'm not sure if this is connected. Can you tell me what's going on?

Computer Doctor: This is not really an error message, it's an informational message. S.M.A.R.T. stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology. This is a recent feature that provides near-term failure prediction for disc drives. When S.M.A.R.T. is enabled, the drive monitors predetermined drive attributes that are susceptible to degradation over time. If a failure is likely to occur, S.M.A.R.T. makes a status report available so that the host BIOS or driver software can prompt the user to back up the data on the drive. Obviously not all failures are predictable, and S.M.A.R.T. predictability is limited to the attributes the drive can monitor, attributes which are pre-determined by the drive manufacturer and cannot be modified.

by hal 9000

Go to the Drive makers web site and download their testing utility and run it. If it comes back as faulty test the drive on a known good computer and lead, then if it still comes up as faulty it's the HDD.

If it comes back as good then you need to look at the Power Supply, IDE Lead, IDE Controller built onto the M'Board any of the above can cause a good HDD to act up and show as faulty on test.

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by hillbilly tech

Western digital HD Sometime need a driver disk to install on some motherboards. I had the same problem. I downloaded the driver for that HD onto a floppy and it went fine. got to western digital web site & look up that HD specs it should help.

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