Asus A8V-X and WD Hard drive

Uranium-235 · 06-28-2008, 12:54 AM

So I had an A64 939, 512M DC lying around, and my mother needs a faster computer for WinXP (previousely Win2k /w sempron 754 & 256M). Got everything in, and the computer just has issues with her hard drive. I loaded the standard ATA drivers so I could at least try and get 2k to boot, but it just hangs after post with the cursor. I thought fine, I'll just put XP on it

XP gets to detecting the hardware right from the initial CD boot (before setup), the screen goes black, and it just stays black, and the CD dosen't try to go any further. I tried a different WD hard drive, and the setup does get past that like it normally should. I tried different cables, tried updating the bios, tried different jumper settings (WD drives do prefer no jumper setting if there is no other drive on the cable, but I did try setting it manually to master and CS and it detects it fine, but same results). tried everything I know

I get the feeling this is some strange compatibility issue between this model hard drive and the system bios. Rare that happens, but it has happened to many people

It DOES detect it, still boots fine off her old computer

06-28-2008, 12:54 AM	#1 (permalink)
Uranium-235 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Milky Way/Alpha Quadrant/Earth/US/Texas Posts: 188 OS: Windows 2000 Professional 2195	Asus A8V-X and WD Hard drive So I had an A64 939, 512M DC lying around, and my mother needs a faster computer for WinXP (previousely Win2k /w sempron 754 & 256M). Got everything in, and the computer just has issues with her hard drive. I loaded the standard ATA drivers so I could at least try and get 2k to boot, but it just hangs after post with the cursor. I thought fine, I'll just put XP on it XP gets to detecting the hardware right from the initial CD boot (before setup), the screen goes black, and it just stays black, and the CD dosen't try to go any further. I tried a different WD hard drive, and the setup does get past that like it normally should. I tried different cables, tried updating the bios, tried different jumper settings (WD drives do prefer no jumper setting if there is no other drive on the cable, but I did try setting it manually to master and CS and it detects it fine, but same results). tried everything I know I get the feeling this is some strange compatibility issue between this model hard drive and the system bios. Rare that happens, but it has happened to many people It DOES detect it, still boots fine off her old computer