Gateway GM5066E help

[SXMWendell]

I am trying to add a 2nd hard drive to this computer. I have installed the
drive but the BIOS doesn't recognise it.
any suggestions. ( I tried the add hardware in Windows too)

TIA

W.

 

[SXMWendell]

I am adding another Hitachi HDT722525DLA380 that I want to Ghost to this
drive since the origional is flaky.

I looked in BIOS and it is set to automaticly look for the drives but
doesn't show anything for this drive.

 

[SXMWendell]

The primary drive is at SATA port 0 in the bios. The cursor just jumps over
SATA port 1 to 3 and master and slave settings. Trued changing all the
settings in the drive setup Bios , no difference . All the settings in Bios
are enable or automatic detect. There was no setting that could be changed
to both.

W.

 

[SXMWendell]

Course the Gateway site said there is in Bios a section to enter the drive
typs , cylinders etc. Don't see any of that.\\

w.

 

[Gnack Nol]

I am trying to add a 2nd hard drive to this computer. I have installed the
drive but the BIOS doesn't recognise it. any suggestions. ( I tried the
add hardware in Windows too)

TIA

W.

I can't say I'm familar with that machine.

Here a few SATA controller basics to look at.

Be shure it is not set up as a raid controller but rather as Ide or
compatable.

check your boot sequence settings because that sata port may be set to be
ignored.

check each sata port's settings they usually are independent of each other
so one setting isn't for all except raid which may include two or more
ports.

Try booting with just the new drive connected to the working port and
above all check and re-seat all drive cables in case one may not be fully
inserted into the socket.

I hope this may help

 

[Gnack Nol]

Looks like the bios automaticly reads what drives are connected and where.
I put the cable from the C: drive to the different SATA ports and bios
showed the drives on the port connected. Changing from Raid to IDE had no
effect. Looks like I have a bad new drive or cable. I saw a jumper on the
mother bd. close to the cable connectors but have no documentation so I
left it alone.

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Generally unlabled jumpers are dangerous, I really hate makers that go to
such lengths just to be difficult and avoid proper documentation.

If the drive refused to be recognised using the working drive's cable and
power connectors it's a safe bet it is in trouble. That's why substituting
a non working unit for the working unit is a very important step in
troubleshooting this.


Wanderer ( think I prevously forgot to include a sig sorry)

 

[redd]

I haven't been able to enable the drive in BIOS. The SATA ports are just
read by the Bios, the cursor jumps past them when paging to the next line to
configure. But the c:hard drive drive is listed at SATA port 0

W.

 

[redd]

Looks like the bios automaticly reads what drives are connected and where. I
put the cable from the C: drive to the different SATA ports and bios showed
the drives on the port connected. Changing from Raid to IDE had no effect.
Looks like I have a bad new drive or cable. I saw a jumper on the mother
bd. close to the cable connectors but have no documentation so I left it
alone.

W.

 

[Curtis Brown]

No - replace drive.

Why should he shitcan a perfectly good drive, stupid?

 

[Curtis Brown]

Ah poor ProngTard does your buttz still hurt from the ass-whoopin I gave
you?

heh

heh. you fucked ProngTard Ashleigh Cope in the ass?

 

[Franc Zabkar]

Looks like the bios automaticly reads what drives are connected and where. I
put the cable from the C: drive to the different SATA ports and bios showed
the drives on the port connected. Changing from Raid to IDE had no effect.
Looks like I have a bad new drive or cable. I saw a jumper on the mother
bd. close to the cable connectors but have no documentation so I left it
alone.

AFAICT this is your motherboard manual (Intel D945GTP, NT94510J
Cortez):
http://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d945gtp/sb/d1407001us.pdf

The 3-pin jumper is documented on page 65. It doesn't appear to be
relevant to your problem.

I was wondering whether your motherboard had the earlier SATA
interface, so I checked out the following documents and found some
conflicting data, probably errors. For example, Intel's datasheet
states that your motherboard supports SATA 2 (3G/s transfer rate), but
Gateway's HDD spec refers to the SATA2 HD (3G/s) as having a Serial
ATA-150 (1.5 G/s) interface. FWIW, Seagate and Maxtor drives have a
1.5GB/3GB jumper for backward compatibility with slower SATA
interfaces, but I don't believe your Hitachi drive is so equipped.

http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d945gtp/sb/CS-029368.htm
http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/D945GTP/TP_manual.htm
http://support.gateway.com/s/PC/R/1008881/1008881sp2.shtml
http://support.gateway.com/s/PC/R/1008881/1008881cl3.shtml
http://support.gateway.com/s/harddrv/Hitachi/105425/105425sp2.shtml
http://support.gateway.com/s/PC/R/1008881/1008881nv.shtml
http://www.hitachigst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/products/Deskstar_T7K250

- Franc Zabkar

 

[neon]

one drive has to be the master and it also has to have system FILES as bootable the other drive must be the slave and every drive have jupers in the back to designate which is master and which is a slave. BIOS is only looking for installed drive and id them after they are installed. the cylinders drams sectors that is for low level formatting in case you want to format the h/d.