Any Help would be welcome

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Leslie Cox

I have just put together a computer consisting of the following:
P4 2.80Gig
Asus P4C800-E Deluxe,
WD800JB hard drive, on primary master with jumper removed.
Creative CD Player on secondary master.
LG DVD recorder.
MSI 128MB AGP
460 Watt power
Leadtek Winfast Capture Card.

The problem is sort of two fold, firstly, when the motherboard was first
powered up it seemed very slow to gather information, and get itself going.
The next problem was that the hard drive made a shrilling noise that sounded
just like a dailup modem for quite some time, and still does at every bootup
until the operating system takes over, or maybe it just warms up?
Secondly everytime I shutdown overnight the board seems to loose all the
information it had about the drive, but if I go into the bios [main] where
it shows no hard drive detected and highlight [TYPE] [AUTO] and press enter
on the keyboard 5/6 times the drive will be recognized again, and after a
couple of attempts will boot into XP.
Everything is brand new, but could it possibly be that the mobo battery is
nearly dead ? or is it possible for the drive bios to be faulty, and if so
is there anyway to repair?
Any help is appreciated.
Best Regards,
Leslie cox.
l_cox at telus dot net
 
Your not alone the board had cmos issues I would rma the board at
very least










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The drive makes a lot of noise on Cold Boot, right? And the drive isn't
immediately detected by the BIOS, right? My guess is that you have a bad
drive. Swap it out with a new one.
 
Leslie said:
I have just put together a computer consisting of the following:
P4 2.80Gig
Asus P4C800-E Deluxe,
WD800JB hard drive, on primary master with jumper removed.
Creative CD Player on secondary master.
LG DVD recorder.
MSI 128MB AGP
460 Watt power
Leadtek Winfast Capture Card.

The problem is sort of two fold, firstly, when the motherboard was first
powered up it seemed very slow to gather information, and get itself going.
The next problem was that the hard drive made a shrilling noise that sounded
just like a dailup modem for quite some time, and still does at every bootup
until the operating system takes over, or maybe it just warms up?
Secondly everytime I shutdown overnight the board seems to loose all the
information it had about the drive, but if I go into the bios [main] where
it shows no hard drive detected and highlight [TYPE] [AUTO] and press enter
on the keyboard 5/6 times the drive will be recognized again, and after a
couple of attempts will boot into XP.
Everything is brand new, but could it possibly be that the mobo battery is
nearly dead ? or is it possible for the drive bios to be faulty, and if so
is there anyway to repair?
Any help is appreciated.
Best Regards,
Leslie cox.
l_cox at telus dot net
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Might not make a difference but put the drives jumper on CS. I've had a
few WD drives that acted similar to yours until I did that. Hopefully
it'll save you a RMA.

Rob
 
Rob said:
Leslie said:
I have just put together a computer consisting of the following:
P4 2.80Gig
Asus P4C800-E Deluxe,
WD800JB hard drive, on primary master with jumper removed.
Creative CD Player on secondary master.
LG DVD recorder.
MSI 128MB AGP
460 Watt power
Leadtek Winfast Capture Card.

The problem is sort of two fold, firstly, when the motherboard was first
powered up it seemed very slow to gather information, and get itself going.
The next problem was that the hard drive made a shrilling noise that sounded
just like a dailup modem for quite some time, and still does at every bootup
until the operating system takes over, or maybe it just warms up?
Secondly everytime I shutdown overnight the board seems to loose all the
information it had about the drive, but if I go into the bios [main] where
it shows no hard drive detected and highlight [TYPE] [AUTO] and press enter
on the keyboard 5/6 times the drive will be recognized again, and after a
couple of attempts will boot into XP.
Everything is brand new, but could it possibly be that the mobo battery is
nearly dead ? or is it possible for the drive bios to be faulty, and if so
is there anyway to repair?
Any help is appreciated.
Best Regards,
Leslie cox.
l_cox at telus dot net
Click to expand...
Might not make a difference but put the drives jumper on CS. I've had a
few WD drives that acted similar to yours until I did that. Hopefully
it'll save you a RMA.

Rob
Click to expand...

Well after a lot of screwing around and hairpulling Dan0 you were correct
the drive was toast, Took it back and exchanged it for another and now I'm
all set. This was the first WD drive that I have ever had a problem with.
Best Regards, and thanks you guys.
Leslie Cox.
 
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