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New sata drive

  • 11-09-2007 10:05pm
    #1
    TerrorFirmer
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    I'm installing a second sata hard drive in my computer, its connected fine but when I boot up the machine hangs on 'detecting ide drives'.

    Any ideas? Googling brings up nothing but problems relating to actual IDE drives, but these are both sata


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  • #2
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,763 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    HavoK wrote:
    I'm installing a second sata hard drive in my computer, its connected fine but when I boot up the machine hangs on 'detecting ide drives'.

    Any ideas? Googling brings up nothing but problems relating to actual IDE drives, but these are both sata

    You don't have RAID turned on the BIOS for the ports it's on, do you?


  • #3
    mathias
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,174 ✭✭✭mathias


    What motherboard do you have and what chipset is on the motherboard , is the new drive a SATA II drive.

    There is an issue with some chipsets and sata 2 drives that will stop a computer booting ( as one of the symptoms). it is tied to specific chipsets though so it does depend on your motherboard.

    You can put a jumper on the SATA drive to limit its speed , which may fix the problem.


  • #4
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    It turned out to just be a dodgey cable in the end actually...! Thanks anyway guys


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