Computer Boot Troubles

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MrHood22

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I'm not sure what it is but now when I try to boot my computer it gives me an error and tells me i need to go into the Bios and save the settings again. So I go in and set to default and then I go to load and it sits on the loading screen until the screen eventually goes black.

Any ideas?
 
Well I got it to boot now but whenever I put in my 4th (and final) Seagate 160gig IDE, it won't boot fully for me.

Any ideas?
 
What do you mean it wont boot fully? Does windows start to boot at all? You might have to look at your boot priority list and make sure you are not trying to boot off the new hard drive before the drive with the OS.
 
Well i've fixed everything except my Single IDE hard drive (other 3 are SATA). What i'm trying to fix is setting up my IDE drive correctly. I'm trying to manuaver the jumper around so it detects it but no deal.
 
have you tried plugging it into both the primary and secondary IDE ports on the Motherboard? Does it start to spin at all when you boot? It could also be a bad IDE cable.
 
I don't have a secondary IDE slot on my hard drive, just a Primary.


What's the CS Jumper thing?
 
The jumper on your hard drive. There should be a little map of what jumper settings are what on your hard drive. CS is cable select. I would try that and slave.
 
MrHood22 said:
I don't have a secondary IDE slot on my hard drive, just a Primary.


What's the CS Jumper thing?
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The Secondary IDE port (if present) would be on the motherboard not the drive. Some of the newer motherboards with lots of SATA on board only have one IDE port. Normally there would be a primary and a secondary IDE channel. Each channel can handle two devices, a master and a slave. Thats where the jumper on the drive comes in. As mentioned it should be marked on the drive how to set the jumper to make the drive a master or slave. The third option is CS which stands for cable select. If the jumper is set to CS then the connector on the IDE cable decides if the drive is master or slave. If you connect the drive to the middle connector it becomes slave and if you connect it to the end connector it becomes master. I've seen a hard drive not get recognized in the BIOS because the jumper(s) were set incorrectly. This usually happens when you move a drive from one PC to another. Some drives are jumper-ed differently depending on whether there is a slave on that channel or not. Any way check the label and jumper it as master or CS and see if you can get it working.
 
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