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July 28th, 2004 02:00

BIOS does not recognize hard drive

Hello,

I recently took the hard drive from my Dimension 4300 and tried to input it into a new comp with two hard drive bays. After getting some driver errors when booting the new comp I tried to put the drive back into the 4300. When I booted the 4300 I received a BIOS error message saying they it could not find a hard drive. I went into the BIOS Setup menu and changed the IDE drive to auto-detect and it still could not find it after rebooting. Based on advice I found on this board I: made sure that the wire connectors were fully seated, the jumper was set at cable select, and cleared the NVRAM through the BIOS setup menu and still no luck. I have also tried setting the drive as a Master and used the other IDE/Power connectors in the computer to make sure that I didn't have a bad wire but nothing has worked. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Comp Specs:
Dimension 4300
Intel Pentium 4 1.3 Ghz
256 MB Ram
30 GB Seagate Hard Drive
Windows XP

Majestic

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July 28th, 2004 11:00

When this happens are you getting any diagnostic light codes on the back of the computer?  Try pulling the motherboard battery to do a "hard" reset of the NVRAM.  With the machine unplugged from the wall remove the battery from the motherboard.  Then with the machine still unplugged press the On button for several seconds to dissipate any remaining electrical charge on the motherboard.  Then re-install the battery, plug the machine back into the wall and see if it will boot up and detect the hard drive.

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