Drive not recognized

[josof]

Can anyone help. I have a 40g Seagate drive and when I boot , it says no drive found. All settings are right and if I remove the motherboard battery and clear cmos, it will then detect the drive and boot into windows XP and run fine. When I turn the computer off, and restart it the next time, the drive is gone again till I clear the cmos and then it comes back.

I am baffeled by this. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

This is a Asus a7v333 motherboard with an Amd XP 1800 processer.

The only thing I noticed different is that the Cpu fan rpm has not been steady, but it does not move by that much and the cpu is not overheating. The Cpu heatsink and fan is new as of a few months ago.

[John Prophet]

Weird huh?

How do you have the jumper set on the drive?

Maybe try it on 'cable select"

Is it on a cable with anything else??

I think like 90% of drive issues are jumper issues....if its on a cable with something else you have to have BOTH jumpers correct (rather, jumpers on BOTH drives)

Do you have the bios set for "auto" as far as IDE drives?

JP

[HeadBand]

well it could be a dying battery but that dosent really make sense since if it was dead it would reset to default automatically but its all i could come up with

[josof]

It is a single drive and the jumper is set to single master. Bios is set to auto. I have tried everything , even moving the jumpers around to cable select but no luck. What is even stranger is this computer I have been using for several months with no problem. I moved to a different location in my room and the problem started. I thought maybe something came loose but I checked all the cables and even switched the cables. It is a mystery to me.

[John Prophet]

Have you got "S.M.A.R.T" enabled? Just a thought..but maybe it would tell you something...or you could run the WD diagnostics...if u dont have them they are surely on WD website.

Could be the controller on the board is getting flaky.

For kicks try it on the secondary controller and reboot some and see if it loses it then.

JP

[josof]

Ok thanks I will try it and keep you posted

[John Prophet]

the primary on my old "main" comp died....I booted one day and it said "hard disk failure".....I almost went into cardiac arrest..cuz I didnt have current backup and I had ALL kinds of bizness data on it etc......luckily it was only the primary controller....phew!