"And that's apparently part of the problem. I have EIGHT hard drives here now and none of them will recognize on the primary IDE bus. Most will on the secondary, but only after a lengthy pause in the POST, and none of them will boot. The old primary just grinds. One of the remaining seven has a bad stepper tick to it. The other six? They just power off at the end of the POST and the machine tries to net boot. I grabbed the most promising of the six and put it in the machine that I'd gotten from nightambre and her hubby... and discovered that the power supply in it as toast. *(^#&^! power switch on the case is fscked."
If your other system is a newer system, and if the drives are somewhat newer, make sure you have the proper 80-wire Cables instead of the older 40-wire cables. They both have the same number of pins, but the 80-wires (which are easily distinguishable as they have a blue connector at the MB end usually, and even if they don't you can tell them by the finer wiring) are faster, and can handle the throughput of data etc. better. We had the same problem with the hard-drive on my roommate's computer not booting properly, or rebooting before it finished the POST. Checked a number of different solutions, some of which were proposed by my advisor at school, and none of them worked, until, by chance, I put in an 80-wire cable, and presto, it worked. Hope this helps some.
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Date: 2008-05-28 02:19 am (UTC)If your other system is a newer system, and if the drives are somewhat newer, make sure you have the proper 80-wire Cables instead of the older 40-wire cables. They both have the same number of pins, but the 80-wires (which are easily distinguishable as they have a blue connector at the MB end usually, and even if they don't you can tell them by the finer wiring) are faster, and can handle the throughput of data etc. better. We had the same problem with the hard-drive on my roommate's computer not booting properly, or rebooting before it finished the POST. Checked a number of different solutions, some of which were proposed by my advisor at school, and none of them worked, until, by chance, I put in an 80-wire cable, and presto, it worked. Hope this helps some.