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?

oh, and before someone says "call gigabyte"

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

No clue, but heres a bump for ya.

sig whore

haha...:)

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.

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

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

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)

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

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

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