mjfletch

Sorry for the delay wolfey. It looks like I have got a second PS issue/failure. This issue has now taken all of my spares so Im going to have to fork out for another PS. I shall let you know the outcome when I have my PS which will be later this week.

will do but how do setup the ide cable. HD as master or optical ? Thanks,

1 IDE

Did that. Gues what happened ?! exactly the same issue as I had before when I swapped the PS out. Turn on power and the fans whir then the machine powers down and won't switch on.

Sorry. Thought I had mentioend the optical drive. DVD RW. The IDE cable is plugged into it. Master connection on the IDE.

when I say it recognises the HDD its still falling over when its comes to reading the drive. I get the same "Primary Slave Hard Disk Error" message as before.

Right. Swapped the power supply and now Im back to where I was before. I did try the drive with my USB-IDE connector. Although the computer stated the device was working properly, It did not appear in "My Computer" as an attached device. I have tried the device on master and this caused the start up to not even recognise the optical drive, let alone the hard drive. when the HDD is set to CS do I get the most joy, ie the computer see's both optical drive and hard drive.

Yes power was off when I moved everything over.

will do.... ****y world here i come. Thanks for your help wolfey. Sorry if you feel i have wasted your time.

same thing im afraid

well. the jumpers were set to cable so I moved them to the middle. But now the PC has a new issue. I think the brand new motherboard may have gone as the pc won't turn on now. The fans run for about a second when I first turn on the power but nothing else happens and it refuses to turn on.....oh well, back to the drawing board. This time with a large scotch.

Hi Wolfey, Its a problematic drive. Although Win 7 does not recognise the drive as being installed when it comes to attempting to load Win7 . My main concern is why the bios is not accepting it.

Hi, Firstly, my machine specs: ECS 7050M-M motherboard Athlon X2 Dual-Core 4600+ CPU 2GB DDR 2 Memory 500gb WD IDE Hard drive (WD5000AAKB) Attempting to install Windows 7 So, my machine recognizes everything whilst it’s booting up i.e., CPU, memory etc. But when it comes to loading slave drive, it initially recognizes that and IDE drive is attached but then when it comes to the second phase of loading where it specifies the capacity. The computer states that there is a hard drive problem. The machines quotes: "Primary Slave Hard Disk Error" I know the hard drive is not at fault as I tried using it in another machine but the installation failed as the PC's spec was not up to the required spec. I can also confirm that the hard drive does spin up and registers on the Hard drive LED. Can anyone please offer assistance?

Hi, I can confirm that I tried the drive in an external IDE device that allowed me to attach it as removable storage to my laptop. It sounds like the arm in the HDD was not engaging properly. Anyhow, I took another look at the motherboard and found that the CPU mount was slightly broken, so I swapped the motherboard and CPU out. Now I have a motherboard that boots into the bios (thus taking the power supply fault out of the equation). Unfortunately, although it recognises my hard drive it will no show the capacity within the BIO and now when I try to load an OS the machine will not recognise the drive as available. This means Im going to have to open a fresh request under the relevant category. Thanks for your help

Hi, I have now tried disabling the hard drive but im afraid the same thing is happening. I also checked the CPU. After putting it back the PC now does what it did before but doesn't power down just sits there with the fans whirring away.