Need some help with my rig please!

[Eagle101]

Hello everyone,

i have just put in a new hard drive in my PC, and when i go to My Computer, it does not show the second hard drive only local disk C :s Please help!

As well as whenever i click the turn off button it does not turn off it retarts :S :S :S this is annoying i am forced to shut off the PC manually. AS well as when it opens the ( start windows manually, start in safe mode screen) the keyboard does not work :G any help would be greatly appreciated :)

[Hellsent 2.0]

Re: Need some help with my rig please!

argh i had the same thing when i put my new hard drive in..cant remember what i did lol!!..go into BIOS and check its there...And look around device manager..cant remember what to do sorry...

[Wizrdwarts]

Re: Need some help with my rig please!

Master/slave jumpers?

I don't know if you even need those on new hard drives now....

[megawhompertoo]

Re: Need some help with my rig please!

Master/slave jumpers?

I don't know if you even need those on new hard drives now....

what ^^ said: make sure your bios is seeing the drive. if your bios isn't seeing the drive, you've got your jumpers zigging when they should be zagging, or you've got your secondary drive plugged in wrong...? then do what ^ said, look in your device manager.

IF you get your drive recognized by your bios, then for me, with a new sata drive, i had to go into msservices:

start-->control panel-->administrative services-->computer management-->disk management and make sure my o/s (xp) gave my drive a letter and had an accessible partition setup

as for the restarts when you turn off...that's your pc telling you you haven't logged into bf2 in 8 months, and bf2 wants you back. at least in my experience. or it might be the soft park feature on your hd that won't let the os let it stop spinning until it's actually recognized...or it could be a bad hd. both of those are towards edge of what's possibly going wrong.

final possibility is your old (?) sata drivers may not like your new HD.

[AvalancheDiode]

Re: Need some help with my rig please!

IF the new hard drive is not pre-partitioned and pre-formatted, then you have to do it yourself. There should be disk manager some where so that you can create partition and format it.

[=98=]

Re: Need some help with my rig please!

start-->control panel-->administrative services-->computer management-->disk management

Yup, go there and you should see the disk. Then choose to format it. Next reboot the drive should appear.

And, SATA drives no longer have "Master" and "Slave" jumpers. It was just IDE and i'm glad they changed it as you get odd looks when talking about masters and slaves in the pub :|:

[Wizrdwarts]

Re: Need some help with my rig please!

Okay so, IDE/ATA are old, had the thick ribbon cable, and needed the jumpers. SATA is new, uses the smaller cable and doesn't need jumpers, right?

And how come my CD drive in my Dell stills uses ATA to connect, even through the hard drive is SATA?

Sorry for the thread hijack, but I'm a bit confused lol.

[=98=]

Re: Need some help with my rig please!

Yea, IDE was ribbon cables.

DVD drives took longer to switch. However, most CD/DVD drives are now SATA.

[AvalancheDiode]

Re: Need some help with my rig please!

Always use cable select.

You people remind me the horrid days that only master from IDE1 can boot.

[Eagle101]

Re: Need some help with my rig please!

Oh lawdddddddddd thnx everone, Thnx Hellsent, Mega, Avalanche, and Alex, can i marry TGN!!!!!!!!!!!! My probs is solved thnx to you guys :) ya'll saved meh 10quid worht the formatting and check up at my local tech shop!

Dnt wry Wizard bout the hijack lol :P

Oh and one more thing, i remeber a while back that Hellsent said that my ACF7pro should be facing the RAM rather than the gfx, here is a pic below is that correct the way it is now?

[=98=]

Re: Need some help with my rig please!

I assume that fan is sucking air "into" the heatsink right?

[Eagle101]

Re: Need some help with my rig please!

I hope your assumption is correct lol, i sure do hope its sucking air in and pushing it out the rear fan.

[=98=]

Re: Need some help with my rig please!

Well, put your hand in front of the fan. If it's blowing air at your hand, then that's bad.

[Hellsent 2.0]

Re: Need some help with my rig please!

Yes it is sucking air..thats the way it should be...I remember before you had it facing teh graphics card..its right now :)

[Eagle101]

Re: Need some help with my rig please!

^ yep, i will try, i just have to buy some new tools our screwdrivers have dissapeared mysteriously :P