hey hardware people, got a new motherboard and I have a problem...help! - GoFuckYourself.com

Jace · 11-17-2005, 07:40 PM

So, i get this new motherboard...gigabyte k8 triton

I got everything all set up...powered it up...it says "detecting ide drives" and finds all my drives and lists them....

then right under where it listed them it says again "Detecting IDE Drives..."

and it hangs up....I can't even get into bios after it does this

any suggestions?

Jace · 11-17-2005, 07:41 PM

oh, and before someone says "call gigabyte"

i tried, they are not open right now....i wanna get this solved tonight

Screaming · 11-17-2005, 07:46 PM

No clue, but heres a bump for ya.

Jace · 11-17-2005, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Screaming

No clue, but heres a bump for ya.

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haha...

sunshynevideo · 11-17-2005, 08:01 PM

try clearing the bios by shorting the pin oy on the motherboard for a few seconds with the power off and this should clear the bios completely. Not sure if this will help but may be worth a try.

Antonio · 11-17-2005, 08:04 PM

check your HD jumpers - you know that master slave thing

I'm sure you can go to bios before that, change the boot seq to CDROM, HD and see if you can boot with your XP cd, that means that evrything's OK and it's prob your HDs CDROMs

Jace · 11-17-2005, 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by sunshynevideo

try clearing the bios by shorting the pin oy on the motherboard for a few seconds with the power off and this should clear the bios completely. Not sure if this will help but may be worth a try.

nope, tried that already....gigabyte makes you pull the battery out for 10 seconds

Jace · 11-17-2005, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Antonio

check your HD jumpers - you know that master slave thing

I'm sure you can go to bios before that, change the boot seq to CDROM, HD and see if you can boot with your XP cd, that means that evrything's OK and it's prob your HDs CDROMs

checked the jumpers first thing, they are all set fine

i can't boot at all...once it gets to that second "detecting ide drives..." it completely locks up, i can't even get into bios after that

the bios is fine though, if I take unhook all the drives it allows me to get into the bios, and the drives are all ordered right

i think it might be a HD issue to be honest

Antonio · 11-17-2005, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Jace

checked the jumpers first thing, they are all set fine

i can't boot at all...once it gets to that second "detecting ide drives..." it completely locks up, i can't even get into bios after that

the bios is fine though, if I take unhook all the drives it allows me to get into the bios, and the drives are all ordered right

i think it might be a HD issue to be honest

could be HD or cable, remove all CDROMS, DVD writers whatever you have there, and try booting with only the HD cabled, also try different cable to the HD (you know the wide gray cable, not sure what it's called)

Jace · 11-17-2005, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Antonio

could be HD or cable, remove all CDROMS, DVD writers whatever you have there, and try booting with only the HD cabled, also try different cable to the HD (you know the wide gray cable, not sure what it's called)

yeah, i did all that already

I have been doing tech stuff for a while, this is the first time this has happened and it confused me

I am grabbing one of my extra 200gb drives from my storage closet, gunna try with that one instead of the one I have in there now....the one in there now is an older drive, at least 4-5 years old...it is pretty beat up

we will see

thanks though dude, i will let ya know what happens

High Quality · 11-17-2005, 08:38 PM

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Jace · 11-17-2005, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by High Quality

WWW.ANANDTECH.COM

wow, great...absolutely nothing on there about my problem...did you check it first or just assume?

Jace · 11-17-2005, 10:39 PM

it was the hard drive

I just threw another one in there and it is looking for the operating system

nice

now to try and fix this old drive

11-17-2005, 07:40 PM	#1
Jace FBOP Class Of 2013 Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: bumfuck, ky Posts: 35,562	hey hardware people, got a new motherboard and I have a problem...help! So, i get this new motherboard...gigabyte k8 triton I got everything all set up...powered it up...it says "detecting ide drives" and finds all my drives and lists them.... then right under where it listed them it says again "Detecting IDE Drives..." and it hangs up....I can't even get into bios after it does this any suggestions?

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11-17-2005, 07:41 PM	#2
Jace FBOP Class Of 2013 Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: bumfuck, ky Posts: 35,562	oh, and before someone says "call gigabyte" i tried, they are not open right now....i wanna get this solved tonight

11-17-2005, 08:01 PM	#5
sunshynevideo Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Sin City Baby! Posts: 360	try clearing the bios by shorting the pin oy on the motherboard for a few seconds with the power off and this should clear the bios completely. Not sure if this will help but may be worth a try.

11-17-2005, 08:04 PM	#6
Antonio Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Spartaaaaaaaaa Posts: 14,136	check your HD jumpers - you know that master slave thing I'm sure you can go to bios before that, change the boot seq to CDROM, HD and see if you can boot with your XP cd, that means that evrything's OK and it's prob your HDs CDROMs

11-17-2005, 10:39 PM	#13
Jace FBOP Class Of 2013 Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: bumfuck, ky Posts: 35,562	it was the hard drive I just threw another one in there and it is looking for the operating system nice now to try and fix this old drive