Re: SATA Primary Drive 0 not found, primary drive 1 not found, no DVD found Dell Dimension 4700

I don't have the BIOS for this system memorized, but virtually any BIOS on
and IDE+SATA system is going to have an IDE configuration setting. Choices
will look like:

Native/compatible mode on PATA-SATA
Native/compatible mode on PATA only
AHCI
Configure SATA as standard IDE
etc., etc.

Having these set wrong can make all (or just some) of the drives disappear.
Note that if this is happening, the drives will not show in the BIOS. If
they are listed there, than this is not the problem. If they are not listed,
then I'd say there's a pretty good chance the first kid who "knew a lot . .
.." went into the bios and screwed up these settings. Then when you used the
"exact same" settings on the new MB, you copied over the same mistake.

You can try different settings until drives start to show up. Reboot into
the BIOS after each change and see if the drives are detected. If you go
from no drives to one or two at some point, you know this is the problem and
can keep working until they all show up. Note that after you get them all
detected, you still may need to F6 and load "a third party RAID or SCSI
driver" during the XP install.

Most common settings are: "configure SATA as standard IDE" *combined with*
"Native mode on PATA+SATA"

-Mike

"Larry Caldwell" <larryc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:MPG.1eac24ea430ff8eb98bb61@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <v3r442d02qr31jttag3qjgjho5p0dii8tl@xxxxxxx>,
larry.nospamraynor@xxxxxxxxx (Larry Raynor) says...

Yes, it does boot up now from the CD ROM after I replaced it.
I've done F2 so many times I may look for an F2 key on my cellphone.

I've restored system defaults.
I see NO SATA drive. I've rebooted, restored system settings many
times.

I've replaced the SATA cable that came with the new hd with the old
SATA setup with a separate power cable and cable to the mb.

Stick that stethoscope on the drive and make sure it is spinning up.

I have no floppy installed, but I could do that to try and find that
SATA drive. Unfortunately, the system BIOS doesn't recognize it.

Do you mean the BIOS is not recognizing the SATA drive? That's a big
oops. Check the Dell site for an upgrade to the BIOS. If the BIOS
still doesn't recognize the drive, you have a hardware problem. Since
you have replaced the drive and the motherboard, that pretty much leaves
the power supply.

I can't do much with the SATA cables/power cable.

???

I have set the CD as bootable, and get a blue windows setup screen
from the Dell Reinstallation CD. I get just so far, then I get an
error message
"file gl1280.sys is corrupted" (sometimes I get different file errors"
and the setup halts, and the only option is to reboot.

Google doesn't find anything on a 'gl1280.sys'. You can find almost
every Windows driver file on the net, so that is pretty strange. Log
onto the Dell support site, do a technician chat and see if they can
dredge something out of their knowledge base. That might suggest a
solution. Probably not, but maybe.

So.... Afte all this... Whatcould be my options?

The boot message indicates you may have a SATA driver problem. Google
'dell SATA driver' and do some reading. If you are trying to boot to
your new hard drive, the drive manufacturer should have included the
driver. If you are trying to boot to the old hard drive, the driver is
on the boot sector of the drive, but the BIOS isn't recognizing the
drive, so you can't get to it. You have to get the BIOS to recognize
the drive before you can do anything else.

--
http://home.teleport.com/~larryc


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