Old motherboard 1

[qmann]

I am currently working on a AOpen AX63 ATX motherboard. The hard drive had originally failed (or so i believed).

Got a new hard drive.. tried it in my computer and it worked fine. Plugged it in the old motherboard.. cannot recognize disk. Tried plugging it in both IDE 0 and IDE 1.

The odd thing is that it will pick up both CDRoms that are installed (occassionally) even sometimes this faults. I am pretty sure it is a problem with the motherboard. To save me some trouble I am looking for some help to try other methods of troubleshooting or if anyone knows where i can get the same motherboard (tried ebay)

Thanks for your help

Quentin

 

[Sheco]

Is perhaps the drive too big for your firmware> How old is the motherboard?

 

[paparazi]

Enter the bios (see initial screen for instruction, usually press delete button but can be F1 or F2) and check that all four devices on the two channels are set to auto detect.

Also change IDE cables just in case

If ATA66 or faster? your IDE cable going to your hard drive should be the fine "ultra" type.

Make sure your hard drive's jumpers are set correctly (see scimatic on the drive label.

Start with the one drive connected and add one at a time (observe post info for drive detection)

Martin

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[qmann]

Cdroms are being recognized.. fault of mine.

The hard drive is not.. your right.. it may be a firmware issue.

The hard drive i have is a maxtor diamondmax 120G ATA / 133 hdd. The bios is an award bios r. 1.17 jul 13 1999.

I'm wondering even with the original drive if the CMOS was somehow reset and it went to an old default revision that dosen't handle the drive that was in there.

Is this bios able to handle this drive... will i have to flash the bios possibly?

Paparazi i did everything you recommended previously with no avail.. so i'm really thinking it's a compatibility issue with the bios and the hard drive

 

[trollacious]

Your BIOS may not be able to count past 8.4G, since the real large hard drives weren't available in 1999. See about a BIOS upgrade, though that may cost you some money nowadays (used to be free from most companies).

Lee

 

[qmann]

there is a bios upgrade that states it allows 136 G or greater.. don't have floppy capability right now so trying to make a cd dos boot disk

 

[micker377]

Just put in a PCI, IDE board. Bypasses BIOS (board has it's own), and any IDE (mobo) problems.

 

[qmann]

Actually updated the bios and it worked perfectly. I guess the BIOS that was initially with the board was not able to read high storage hard drives.