tanda333 Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 i got a coupla older dells, PII era. and one wont recognize any hard drive i put in, now i know that dells are proprietary, but a hard drive? and dont say dells suck, i got these for free. so ya, basically, i need to know just how proprietary the older dells are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 Try a different IDE cable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meister_sd Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 Most of the older Dells require the hard drive jumped to CS - Cable Select. If you have it set to Master or Slave just change it and it should work. Also, some older Dells can only "see" smaller drives, so try an 8G or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanda333 Posted July 11, 2007 Author Share Posted July 11, 2007 oh dont worry, i was trying a 6.4 gig.... but that makes sense, thx... any more info i should be warned about, ive never worked with dells before hjardware is my passion, but dells push my limits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meister_sd Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 Then as long as it is set to CS and the drive spins, you should be OK. Also, all devices should be CS in that era. Best way to start is just put on the HD. If you get past that, add the CD-ROM and others as needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 Does the BIOS find them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jht129 Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 cable problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanda333 Posted July 13, 2007 Author Share Posted July 13, 2007 um i have set everything to CS and added one drive at a time till i had 4 in there, a 1.2 gig, a 3.8 gig, a 6.4 gig, and a 20 gig, all on Cs and nothing, i tried master/slave arrangement, nothing, i even swapped cables. the bios simply will NOT recoginze any hard drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unasoto Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 um i have set everything to CS and added one drive at a time till i had 4 in there, a 1.2 gig, a 3.8 gig, a 6.4 gig, and a 20 gig, all on Cs and nothing, i tried master/slave arrangement, nothing, i even swapped cables. the bios simply will NOT recoginze any hard drive That sounds like a bad motherboard, get a PCI IDE card and put that in and see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalfDeadLoC Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 Random curiosty in the BIOs screen are the HDD's info already filled out? If so may try setting it to auto or making sure all info listed is correct for the new HDDs you're putting in. I got a couple of old Dells myself (thinkin' a 486SX and a Pentium 2) and both have had different HDDs in them at one point or another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanda333 Posted July 15, 2007 Author Share Posted July 15, 2007 nope, its all set to auto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meister_sd Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 Guess it is time to think that the onboard IDE is bad.... Try the PCI IDE...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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