help!

[devilfire]

unplugged working system, tbird 1ghz, asus a7v, 128mb pc133 ram, and then i set it on its side to move a sound card to a diff pci slot, i plug everything back in and my ata100 bios isn't detecting my hard drive! i'm using a different computer right now..i've checked all connections, i can hear hard drive spin when i boot up the computer, what could be wrong! don't thikn its a dead cable cuz it worked 5 minutes before... HELP!

[Rob Cork]

Mine's done this to me a couple of times. Once I managed to fix it by plugging the drive into one of the UDMA66 connectors, booting up and shutting down, then plugging back into the ATA100. And another time I found I had to loosen the screws holding the hard drive in place - in fact I can stop my computer from booting up just by tightening the hard drive screws a little now! Beats me :-)

[!-=sky=-!]

my asus a7v does the same to me........
i can't even get the ata100 plug to work b/c the wire isn't even long enough to reach the hd and the mobo for some reason.......

[Wega!]

Have u tried another pci slot?

[blizzardsnake]

i had the same problem too ...asus 17v..how do i use the raid O function?

[YahooDave]

Did you try moving your soundcard back to the original slot? Sometimes you end up with some crazy conflicts when you move things around.

[oc jason]

ya move it back then try the HD without screwing it in-some times the screws can put pressure on the HD case and bend the indide a litlle and it wont read

[TT120]

Try putting the sound card back in it's original spot or taking it out completely and also try a different power connector for the hard drive. Sometimes the power connectors dont make a good connection. That might be why it doesn't seem to be spinning up.