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Upgrading bios

Asked by: timbo666nz

I have recently purchased a second hand hp descktop with a d330 motherboard and Im trying to install my wd2500 harddrive on it with out success. The hard drive does work  as I only pulled it out of my old machine. My bios and windows setting dont detect it. It is currently running as a slave along side a western digital 40gig and the os is xp pro

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2009-08-28 at 22:16:27ID24691614
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Answers

 

by: nobusPosted on 2009-08-29 at 00:23:06ID: 25213242

is the pc using C/S jumpering for the drives?  then the new one must have that too; otherwise, check the M/S jumper on both, wd has different jumper system
also, wd2500 is unkniwn model - is it correct?
post also the HP model

 

by: timbo666nzPosted on 2009-08-29 at 00:31:04ID: 25213255

What is cs jumping???

The hard drive is a wdcavier wd2500jb
and the hp is a hp compaq with intel pentium 4.
the mother board is a d330m
hope this is helpful as I have started pulling my hair out.
Thanks Tim

 

by: nobusPosted on 2009-08-29 at 00:49:34ID: 25213286

i posted C/S jumpering, not cs jumping...   also, i suppose you mean wd Caviar, not wd cavier?
it means cable select, more info :  http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=bph03792&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en

and please leave your hair alone !

 

by: nobusPosted on 2009-08-29 at 00:52:51ID: 25213292

 

by: timbo666nzPosted on 2009-08-29 at 00:55:39ID: 25213298

So it has nothing to do with the bios then????

 

by: timbo666nzPosted on 2009-08-29 at 01:11:52ID: 25213324

All the jumpers were selected properly.
But still I can not see the 250 gig drive????
If i remove the 40 gig it sees the drive but only sees it as a 8.79 gig.

 

by: nobusPosted on 2009-08-29 at 02:27:11ID: 25213467

>>  If i remove the 40 gig it sees the drive but only sees it as a 8.79 gig.  <<  yes, then it may be the bios that does not have the 48-bit LBA support
info (look at the 128 GB barrier : http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/hard_drive_size_barriers.htm
 

>>   the hp is a hp compaq with intel pentium 4.   <<  that is NOT what i asked, what model is it ?? then i can look

 

by: timbo666nzPosted on 2009-08-29 at 02:45:14ID: 25213510

I can only locate the product number.
du762pa#abg

or this may help
ds330m/P2.6c/40br/256g/4 AUST
and the serial number is AUB3460864

 

by: nobusPosted on 2009-08-29 at 04:58:05ID: 25213784

is it a presario?
here how to find it :  http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support/prod_info.html

 

by: noxchoPosted on 2009-08-29 at 05:34:10ID: 25213833

Check in BIOS what mode of HDD detection is set there. Is it set on AUTO?

 

by: timbo666nzPosted on 2009-08-29 at 20:09:45ID: 25216235

I have looked at everything.
I can now see the drive during load up.it says it has only 8.45gig
and I can see it in device manager. but when I try to test it it says there are cable issues. I have checked the cable time after time...
Everything seems to be right but something is obviously missing.

 

by: nobusPosted on 2009-08-29 at 23:16:03ID: 25216517

>>  but when I try to test it it says there are cable issues   <<   with what did you test it?
also, is the cable an 80- wire cable, and not a 40 wire one?

 

by: mi1400Posted on 2009-08-30 at 03:43:27ID: 25217134

I am old fan of WD drives. but to my experience when WD drives are intermixed there are detection problems. its documented well on internet. i suggest u put the problematic WD drive inplace of ur CD/DVD cable, remove CD/DVD and put this on that cable. try changing to cable select. try putting drive in external USB enclosure, that will eliminate all the Socket/Motherboard/cable/Pins/Jumper fuss.

 

by: ChiefITPosted on 2009-09-02 at 23:58:06ID: 25248343

There is a couple things on WD hard drives you might want to know.

First off, they should be set to master and slave instead of C/S. As stated above multiple WD drives can conflict.

Also:
http://www.hddwiki.org/index.php/2009/07/30/a-western-digital-wd1200pb-00fba0-drive-cannot-be-identified-in-computer-bios-we-need-to-recover-user-data/
"If the universal utility is unable to read ID from that HDD and reports error 04h (ABRT), then you should launch a specialized utility for Western Digital HDDs. It will switch the drive to factory mode and attempt to read firmware header in ROM and the configuration sector in service area on disk."

You might consider manually setting your BIOS drive settings with the drive's parameters, (like sectors, cylinders and heads). I think Most BIOS will let you set these manually still.

 

by: mi1400Posted on 2009-09-03 at 01:55:18ID: 25248849

thanks ChiefIT. i guess method of elimiation would help him in this case. i guess we recommend him to put the drive in USB enclosure to eliminate all other Motherboard factor, and see if USB enclosure detects drive.

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