I recently bought a HD as my other had ZERO yes zero bytes left and it was becoming silly, and i download like 100Mb a day so i needed the space and as any clever person would do i posted in the forums for some tips basically i bought a Western Digital 80Gb 7200rpm 8Mb BUT TO MY HORROR i found out that they didnt work on my PC (it isnt the latest thing out but its not too slow i thinks PIII 500Mhz 256Mb AOPEN AX6BC MOBO and i have connected it properly i checked 3 times or more, and i did put the drive as slave and my 9.5Gb as master (as it was) and tried to load it up but it wudnt load DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT MIGHT BE WRONG I AM GOING TO UPGRADE BUT NOT YET AND I NEED THE SPACE, PLEASE HELP!!!:cries: :cries:
Is there a seperate "Master" and "Master With Slave Connected" jumper setting on your old drive? Double check. I'd say maybe a BIOS update is necessary, but ususally it'll only show like the first 8 gigs or so, not the full drive. Try just hooking the new drive up, one device on that cable. Set it as single drive. Look in the BIOS and see if it shows up. If not, either you have a bad drive or a BIOS update needed. If it does, then you have a jumper issue.
ive tried everything but nothing seems to work i tried it with cable select/everything but it doesnt work and my other harddrive doesnt have anyhting else apart from master/slave/cs so i thinks it might be the BIOS thats in dire need of an upgrade since....1999 but ive never had any problems before so i never felt the need but now im in dire need!!!:cries: do u know where to get bios upgrades for an: LIST BELOW REPRESENTS SOME ONFO I GOT OF MY MOBO ON THE STARTUP SCREEN: AOPEN AX6BC 440 BX R.2.20 BIOS V4.60PGMA 01/19/1999 - 1440BX - 00000006C - 00 thanks for your replies
have you tried the new drive on its own? I'm pretty sure the new WDs all have a "Single Drive" setting (as well as master/slave/CS) try that. See if it comes up in the BIOS. Im going through my standard analysis to see what the issue is. I'll look up that BIOS shortly and see if I can find it.
WD HDDs have mental jumper settings that dont seem to follow the marking on the PCB on the underside of the drive......at least not on my two WDs. So it seems sometimes they need 2 jumpers, even if they ship with one......very strange! Hope this helps
If that doesn't work... The AX6BC bios is up to R2.57... here is a link to the bios upgrade if you need to do that. I don't see why you would need to upgrade your bios to make this work but you never know...
Here's ya BIOS update: http://www.aopen.com/tech/download/mbbios/ax6bc.htm note, update at your own risk. Follow the instructions on the page, get the latest version, put the files on a dos boot disk (no memory managers) run the file and you should be fine. All the new style WDs are all kinds of weird as far as the jumper settings are concerned
thanks for all your help so far and i tried them all, the ones i dont understand are cable select what is that, i did try that by the way, and the dual jumper setting luckily i had a another jumper shunt lying around but it still didnt work, well i went into BIOS and then hdd detection but it cam up with 0 0 0 0 .... so it didnt recognoze anything and i havent upgraded the bios since im scared if i screw it up please give me some tips on what to do, I WILL TRY THE BIOS, last resort OR NOT
update the bios first...that would be the first step.... then try the different cable positions... cable select means that depending on which part of the cable you use it will select master or slave for you....
ermmm.(n00b)....how wud u update the bios.....is it when you insert the disk u saved it on on windows or on startup...sorry but i really appreciate the help
CS or cable select doesn't use the jumper settings, all the drives are neutral. Instead, the system sets the drive hierarchy by location on the cable. The drive on the end of the cable is recognized as the master and all drives between the end and the mother board are recognized as slaves.
From the link I gave you above: Procedure: Download this zipped file. Run shareware PKUNZIP (http://www.pkware.com/) which supports miscellaneous operation systems to extract the binary BIOS file and the flash utility. Or Winzip (http://www.winzip.com/) in Windows environment. Save "AX6BC253.EXE" and "AX6BC253.BIN" to a DOS floppy disk. Reboot your system with this disk without loading any memory handler (suh as EMM386) or device driver to get as much free space as possible. If you have an EPROM writer, simply take the .BIN file to program your BIOS. Execute A:>AX6BC253 and the program will do the rest of it. DO NOT turn off power during flashing process, until you are asked to!! Reboot system and press "DEL" to enter BIOS setup, load "BIOS SETUP DEFAULT", then SAVE and EXIT. Done!
lo dude, to flash the bios read the instructions on the aopen website...im pretty sure you have to put it onto a boot disk and then boot of it... make sure ur pc doesnt have a power cut while flushing...and everything else should be self explanitory....
call me dumb but i looked at that picture VERY HELPFUL THANKS and i never really looked below it to look that the dual jumper settings should be like the 2 vertical on the cs and slave but i did the dual in the picture LMAO thanks again to EVERYONE!!!
ermmmm sorry7 theres another problem my hd is being recognized at startup, but i didnt go into bios and i thought that there wouldnt be any more problems but now the drive is not in my computer do i need to go into IDE HDD DETECTION IN BIOS sorry:cries: but u have been really helpful so far
i have tried the auto detection in BIOS and it does showup but it says in size that its only 30820 which im sure is not 80Gb right? so please can u help and it still doesnt show up in my computer, do i need an installation disk cos i saw a review of the boxed version (mine is oem) and it came with a disk.
maybe your motherboard has not got support for hard drives that big and might only be able to support 30gb drives.
