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hackerdan1
July 8th, 2003, 03:46 AM
ok ibe been having some problems bare with me now because im not even sure of what the exact problem is, ill just go through the steps when i boot up. It goes through memory check ok, then after that it will sit for a few minutes. After that it will give a message "Pri Slave Drive ATAPI incompatible press F1 to ressume". So i press F1then it goes through weird RPL,ROm, FCC things, counts to 200. After that it just says boot faliure and says press F1 to try to boot into floppy. So i went into my bios (btw im using AmiBios with a 40 GIG hard drive) and when i try to make it see my Primary master it says that it isint installed. When i know my hard drive is def. installed, :mad: Any help at all? Thanks in advance
cheyenne1212
July 8th, 2003, 04:13 AM
Have you checked your jumpers??
What brand of HD is it.
hackerdan1
July 8th, 2003, 04:36 AM
yes i have checked my jumpers, its a SamSung HD
incideagent
July 8th, 2003, 05:06 AM
your hd maybe incompatible with your motherboard, you may need to set the jumpers to cable select, because the hd is too big for the motherboard. i had this same problem with a maxtor 40gb. hope that works.
allenb1963
July 8th, 2003, 06:19 AM
A BIOS update *might* be helpful too. Also, make sure the "master" drive is plugged into the connector at the very end of the EIDE cable.
hackerdan1
July 8th, 2003, 06:30 AM
i used this HD before with this bios.
cheyenne1212
July 8th, 2003, 07:36 AM
And it never gave you any problems.?
hackerdan1
July 8th, 2003, 08:22 AM
not really, ive had a crap load of problems with this setup, but it was working good, i wanted to format and put linux in so i did not i get a HD problem. im so confused dont know what to do now. But some part of me is telling me its a bios problem, i put my old 2 GIG hard drive in there, gave me the same problem, but i dont know if it would do that anyway because its so old.
rcgreen
July 9th, 2003, 12:28 AM
How did the problem begin? Was it working ok until it suddenly died?
Did it malfinction when you made software or hardware changes?
:cool:
hackerdan1
July 9th, 2003, 02:26 AM
no its werid was working fine i formated went out for an hour came back and it now has problems (no one was at my house at the time so i know nobody touched it)