Jumper positions on the hard drive are usually labelled on the top of the drive, but this will not prevent it spinning up. You have either a bad IDE cable ( try replacing it), or more likely the controller on the motherboard ID0 port has failed. Also, hard drive failure ,Check by plugging the drive temporarily into ID1 socket ( remove the cable for the optical drive 1st) If there are still problems, you need to examine your hard drive on another computer, probable it is failing
Not really, its a matter of elimination processes. There is chinese hardware that will check the motherboard, but it rarely works. I'm assuming you tried the HDD on the ID1 port If you did and it worked, this points to the ID0 port being damaged (see if you can see any bent pins (there will be one missing from the row, this is normal). If there are no bent pins, assume that the controller for that port is damaged. Your only option then is to replace the motherboard, or set the optical as slave on IDE1 and the HDD as master on the same (you may need to get a cable that has enough space between the two connectors to do thisNot really, its a matter of elimination processes. There is chinese hardware that will check the motherboard, but it rarely works. I'm assuming you tried the HDD on the ID1 port If you did and it worked, this points to the ID0 port being damaged (see if you can see any bent pins (there will be one missing from the row, this is normal). If there are no bent pins, assume that the controller for that port is damaged. Your only option then is to replace the motherboard, or set the optical as slave on IDE1 and the HDD as master on the same (you may need to get a cable that has enough space between the two connectors to do this
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Jumper positions on the hard drive are usually labelled on the top of the drive, but this will not prevent it spinning up.
You have either a bad IDE cable ( try replacing it), or more likely the controller on the motherboard ID0 port has failed. Also, hard drive failure ,Check by plugging the drive temporarily into ID1 socket ( remove the cable for the optical drive 1st)
If there are still problems, you need to examine your hard drive on another computer, probable it is failing
Not really, its a matter of elimination processes. There is chinese hardware that will check the motherboard, but it rarely works. I'm assuming you tried the HDD on the ID1 port
If you did and it worked, this points to the ID0 port being damaged (see if you can see any bent pins (there will be one missing from the row, this is normal). If there are no bent pins, assume that the controller for that port is damaged. Your only option then is to replace the motherboard, or set the optical as slave on IDE1 and the HDD as master on the same (you may need to get a cable that has enough space between the two connectors to do this
Make sure you ide cable is plugged in correctly and set jumpers to master the diagram is on the hard drive.