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darkwood · 09-12-2005, 01:36 PM

Hi everyone. I am doing my first PC build, so I could use some help getting things running. I have everything installed and when I turn on the system it finds the CPU, and memory test passes, but when it searches for IDE drives it hangs, and doesn't allow me to access the BIOS.

When I unplug all of the hardware pieces leaving the CPU, memory, and video card, I can access the BIOS, and when it searches for IDE drives it gives me the results that it cannot find any. Are there any settings within the BOIS that I need to change so that It will recognize IDE drives? (I plugged in just the HDD to see if that caused it to hang, and it did. I have yet to t-shoot the DVD+-RW drive to see if it hangs on that or the floppy)

As I prefaced on my other post when I asked for advice on what hardware to purchase, I am a software guy with little, to no experience with hardware and PC building, but wanted to give it a shot, because there are people around me who want basic PC's and I figured I could make a little bit of money and help them out at the same time. That being said, I know very little about Port or Jumper adjustments, if I even need to make any. I followed my MB (btw, it's an ASUS A7N8X-X Socket A) manual to a T for the hardware install and that all seems to be working just fine.

Also what is the optimal operating Temperature for the CPU? (AMD Athlon XP 2600+ Barton 333 MHz) in the BIOS it said it was running about 115 degrees.

09-12-2005, 01:36 PM	#1 (permalink)
darkwood Registered User Join Date: May 2005 Location: Indianapolis, IN Posts: 77 OS: Windows XP Pro	Not finding IDE on initial startup Hi everyone. I am doing my first PC build, so I could use some help getting things running. I have everything installed and when I turn on the system it finds the CPU, and memory test passes, but when it searches for IDE drives it hangs, and doesn't allow me to access the BIOS. When I unplug all of the hardware pieces leaving the CPU, memory, and video card, I can access the BIOS, and when it searches for IDE drives it gives me the results that it cannot find any. Are there any settings within the BOIS that I need to change so that It will recognize IDE drives? (I plugged in just the HDD to see if that caused it to hang, and it did. I have yet to t-shoot the DVD+-RW drive to see if it hangs on that or the floppy) As I prefaced on my other post when I asked for advice on what hardware to purchase, I am a software guy with little, to no experience with hardware and PC building, but wanted to give it a shot, because there are people around me who want basic PC's and I figured I could make a little bit of money and help them out at the same time. That being said, I know very little about Port or Jumper adjustments, if I even need to make any. I followed my MB (btw, it's an ASUS A7N8X-X Socket A) manual to a T for the hardware install and that all seems to be working just fine. Also what is the optimal operating Temperature for the CPU? (AMD Athlon XP 2600+ Barton 333 MHz) in the BIOS it said it was running about 115 degrees.