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Limp Gawd
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I recently purchased a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS 500GB hard drive from newegg.
(newegg link)
When I installed it, boot up would take a very long time and bios would not recognize the drive. If I disconnected it, everything would boot properly and in short order, as expected.
However, if I disconnected everything else aside from this new hard drive, boot up would again be slow and bios would still not recognize the drive. I've tried connecting it to my motherboard's (Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe) four different SATA ports only to experience the same symptoms mentioned above.
Granted, I didn't test to see if the computer would completely boot to windows with the hard drive in any configuration. However, I figured if BIOS couldn't see it, windows definitely wouldn't. Additionally, the only thing I've done to the hard drive is remove the 1.5 Gbps restricting jumper.
Is this likely indicative of a bad hard drive? Or is there something else possibly at play here? My system will boot and run just fine without the new hard drive installed, so I figure it definitely has something to do with that component. However, I'm willing to provide any further information and answer any questions to help resolve this. Thanks!
(newegg link)
When I installed it, boot up would take a very long time and bios would not recognize the drive. If I disconnected it, everything would boot properly and in short order, as expected.
However, if I disconnected everything else aside from this new hard drive, boot up would again be slow and bios would still not recognize the drive. I've tried connecting it to my motherboard's (Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe) four different SATA ports only to experience the same symptoms mentioned above.
Granted, I didn't test to see if the computer would completely boot to windows with the hard drive in any configuration. However, I figured if BIOS couldn't see it, windows definitely wouldn't. Additionally, the only thing I've done to the hard drive is remove the 1.5 Gbps restricting jumper.
Is this likely indicative of a bad hard drive? Or is there something else possibly at play here? My system will boot and run just fine without the new hard drive installed, so I figure it definitely has something to do with that component. However, I'm willing to provide any further information and answer any questions to help resolve this. Thanks!