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**Done_Fishin** · 07-21-2007, 10:25 AM

Check with Dell to see if there's a BIOS update ..

If I understand correctly .. the DVD has been working well for some time and a replacement DVD does the same ..

What size is your OLD hard drive ..

There is a slim chance that this might be power supply related .. I note that you only have a 305W power supply .. I have seen mobo's work great in all respects except that the FLOPPY wouldn't work which turned out to be PSU .. but it's along shot .. more likely a BIOS problem due to exceeding 137GB..

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Done_Fishin Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Brit living in Greece Posts: 7,404 OS: WinME, WinXP Pro SP3, Win7 Beta, Ubuntu 9.04 & Netbook Remix & CD2USB, Mepis 6.5, Fedora 10 My System	Re: HDD causing DVD drive to be "incompatible" Check with Dell to see if there's a BIOS update .. If I understand correctly .. the DVD has been working well for some time and a replacement DVD does the same .. What size is your OLD hard drive .. There is a slim chance that this might be power supply related .. I note that you only have a 305W power supply .. I have seen mobo's work great in all respects except that the FLOPPY wouldn't work which turned out to be PSU .. but it's along shot .. more likely a BIOS problem due to exceeding 137GB.. __________________ . . I'm not old!! I'm age impaired .. D_F I DON'T PLAY GAMES How to mark your thread as solved HDD DIAG UTILS TSF's Photographer's Corner Last edited by Done_Fishin; 07-21-2007 at 10:28 AM.