300GB Maxtor Problems.....

Brolly43 · 09-27-2005, 01:41 PM

I got a brand new Maxtor 300gb diamondmax hdd, i put it in my computer but it doesnt show up on the bios, i also have a 120gb western digital and when slaved to the 300gig it doesnt recognize it either, i tried connecting the 300 gig on its own but nothing shows up. i tried all combinations of jumper settings and nothing. PC specs are as followed.

Asus A7V8X
Athlon XP 3200
1gb of kingston ram
windows xp pro
radeon 9800 pro 128

i went to maxtor site and they said to try this powermax software but if anyone has any other ideas please post up

. Thanks

Brolly

**linderman** · 09-27-2005, 03:13 PM

Welcome to TSF:

I would try to clear you cmos then reboot and see it that wakes the bios up

or maybe this link
http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx...var1=0&var2=92

cheers

joe

Brolly43 · 09-27-2005, 04:11 PM

true, i didnt try that at all yesterday. just fooled around with the jumper settings. another thing i read was to try and manually set the hdd parameters, but i doubt that will work as ive never done that before. thanks for the advice linderman.

09-27-2005, 01:41 PM	#1 (permalink)
Brolly43 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 11 OS: Windows XP proffesional	300GB Maxtor Problems..... I got a brand new Maxtor 300gb diamondmax hdd, i put it in my computer but it doesnt show up on the bios, i also have a 120gb western digital and when slaved to the 300gig it doesnt recognize it either, i tried connecting the 300 gig on its own but nothing shows up. i tried all combinations of jumper settings and nothing. PC specs are as followed. Asus A7V8X Athlon XP 3200 1gb of kingston ram windows xp pro radeon 9800 pro 128 i went to maxtor site and they said to try this powermax software but if anyone has any other ideas please post up . Thanks Brolly

09-27-2005, 03:13 PM	#2 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,437 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	Welcome to TSF: I would try to clear you cmos then reboot and see it that wakes the bios up or maybe this link http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx...var1=0&var2=92 cheers joe __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial

09-27-2005, 04:11 PM	#3 (permalink)
Brolly43 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 11 OS: Windows XP proffesional	true, i didnt try that at all yesterday. just fooled around with the jumper settings. another thing i read was to try and manually set the hdd parameters, but i doubt that will work as ive never done that before. thanks for the advice linderman.