gigabyte 2

[chrome100]

I am building a pc with a gygabyte GA-72XR mother board and i cant get it to find any drives anyone got any ideas

 

[ski]

Is the BIOS configured for automatic recognition of the drives?
Are the drives correctly jumpered, and connected to the correct IDE cable connections?
Did you try a different IDE cable and a different power cable?
Did you try updating the BIOS?

 

[chrome100]

Yes i have checked all the jumper settings and the bios and every other thing i can think of even got a friend to try and he had the same problem, All i get is a screen looking for floppy not found looking for cd not found etc

 

[ski]

Try a known working FD and/or CD-ROM drive.

If no luck, then the MB may be defective.

 

[paparazi]

chrome100
Start with one hard drive set to master on primary IDE channel, make sure in the bios it is set to auto detect.
If your IDE cable isn't keyed (have a sticking out lug that lacates in the IDE socket and Hard drive, then get one that is keyed to be sure of orientation.
If a single drive doesn't detect as Master on the primary try another IDE device but if this fails to detect I think you are looking at a motherboard problem.
Martin

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[chrome100]

Thanks for the help i think it must be the M/B , all the drives H/D, CDROM CDRW, and Floppy are new.
I have tryed the drives in my pc and all work ok, all the IDE cables are keyed. And i have even put the drives out of my PC into it and still no luck
thanks colin

 

[haygood2]

try clearing the cmos...