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by Cactus521
Tue Nov 11, 2003 7:31 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 80GB: 12/12/2000-i440BX-W977EF-2A69KI3IC-00
Replies: 7
Views: 4731

I'll pull the HD and try the default jumper setting again... Always a chance I didn't have it jumpered properly when I originally tried to install it. The jumper workaround WD uses forces the drive to report itself as a 32 Gig drive to fool the BIOS into accepting it. It may well be that's why the d...
by Cactus521
Tue Nov 11, 2003 8:15 am
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 80GB: 12/12/2000-i440BX-W977EF-2A69KI3IC-00
Replies: 7
Views: 4731

80GB: 12/12/2000-i440BX-W977EF-2A69KI3IC-00

Have an Iwill BD100+ MB and new WD 80G drive... Latest Bios from Iwill's site is 12/12/00... They quit updating the Award Bios after that. The BIOS won't recognize the HD...locks during auto-detect... Can skirt around it by jumpering the HD, but the stupid overlay loads after setting up the drive......