URGENT HELP NEEDED! drive failed - cable issue

sticker

Hey all,

I bought the following rig from gline here on the boards:

Intel QX6700@3.34ghz
Tuniq tower cooled
EVGA nForce 680i mobo
Corsair 2 gig DDR2 XMS2 Dominator
2x POV 8800gtx
2x scsi320 147gig 15k rpm hdds raid0 + PCI-E SCSI RAID CARD
320gig sata2
Nec 5170 Dvdrw
XFI Fatality Fps
PC P+C 750 Silencer Quad
24" Dell 2407WFP
Creative 7900 7.1 system
CM Stacker

He was up a week ago to do a few bits (he's abroad now for three weeks and unreachable)

Anyway, after an unsucessful attempt at installing a IDE drive bay (not enough power cables on the motherboard) - and a bit of tinkering inside the case, the bios showed the following error at startup :

1 LOGICAL DRIVE(S) found on the host adapter
1 LOGICAL DRIVE(S) FAILED -
1 LOGICAL DRIVE(S) handled by BIOS

Glen said it was a lose cable so he tweaked something and it worked.

The same issue has arisen again - I'm lost looking into the thing and need a little help - the rig has two HD's and a DVD drive - I've opened it up and tried to mildly fiddle with the cables into said drives... same error message on bios.

Anyone (of hardware literacy) fancy an emergeny nixer in the clonee area tomorrow morning? I'd estimate anyone knowing their way around the inside of a PC would figure it out in no time! - PM me...

Alternatively I was going to drag it to Marx Computers in Fairview and let them fix it... I'm a web designer and as long as the rig is down I'm buggered!

Or would anyone recommend a decent hardware doctor in the Clonee / blanch area? Do Maplins do repairs?!

Thanks in advance

sticker

Anyone...? even a recommended location for PC repairs in Clonee / blanch area?!

Tails142

you said you checked the cables at the drive end, did you check they were connected at the motherboard too.

It sounds more like it would be a power cable though, did you check those (they're not as wide) - also he may have an adapter on the power cable changing one cable to two or more, maybe this came loose. Just something that might be worth checking yourself.

sticker

Tails142 wrote: »

you said you checked the cables at the drive end, did you check they were connected at the motherboard too.

It sounds more like it would be a power cable though, did you check those (they're not as wide) - also he may have an adapter on the power cable changing one cable to two or more, maybe this came loose. Just something that might be worth checking yourself.

It a SCUSI set of drives (apologies for the mis-spelling!!) - so there's a SCUSI board if you like - all cables go into that not the motherboard - (as far as I know!) I've left it into Marx computers in Fairview - at first tinker, the guy couldn't get the machine booting but it was only for a little while - he's on a half day so will continue with it tomorrow...

Fingers crossed! - it's wierd, I'm like a heroin addict without the bloddy thing!!!

sticker

I've the rig back from Marx now - they told me they weren't all that familiar with the scsi drive setup - so it's back home now...

WizZard here on the boards was recommended by gline and he's coming up tomorrow night to have a look...