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abowlsbey

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February 13th, 2004 14:00

Optiplex won't boot detect hard drive

I've replaced the hard drive in our Optiplex.  Checked setup and all IDE devices were set to auto and were detected properly.  But the computer tries to boot PXE... Removed PXE from the boot list... no luck, upgrade bios to A10... no dice,  removed all ide devices except the hdd (set to master then cable select) which is on the primary ide controller... still nothing, reset all to factory defaults using the MB jumper...nothing again.  This new drive is detected each time and works fine in other computers.  Am I missing something obvious?  TIA.    

peterfelgate_ce40d3

1.3K Posts

February 14th, 2004 12:00

Set disk to cable select, and AUTO in the bios on the right connector.  Make sure its on the right connector.  Select NIC in the bios to be ON (PXE off).  Remove from boot sequence, then reboot.

abowlsbey

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February 18th, 2004 19:00

No, I no longer get the PXE message (sorry I guess I should've explained that).  Short term I had set all other IDE devices to none.   Right now I get "strike F1 to reboot, F2 for setup".  F1 loops me back to the same message.  F2 takes me to setup where I see the drive is detected.

 

Thanks for your help. 

abowlsbey

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February 18th, 2004 19:00

Ya. I tried again, making sure the drive was on  the right connector, and removing PXE from the boot options.  I even tried hard disk only boot.  Each time the drive is detected ( info...size...) but the computer will not boot it. 

peterfelgate_ce40d3

1.3K Posts

February 18th, 2004 19:00

Do you still get the PXE message?  How long do you leave the machine to boot?  Have you disabled (i.e. set to NONE in the bios) and drives that are not there?  If the bios is set to detect drives that aren't there (e.g. set to AUTO) it can take up to 2 minutes for the bios to find they aren't there and to boot.....

peterfelgate_ce40d3

1.3K Posts

February 19th, 2004 07:00

Firstly, try resetting the NVRAM. Secondly, what OS are you using? If you are using a FAT32 partition, connect only the HDD and set all other IDE devices to NONE, use a boot floppy and then see if you can access the disk.

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