musket Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 Hey, I finally had gotten past the "still waiting for root device" message, and was installing OSX 10.4.8 jas when the install seemed to be going extremly slow... So i left for about 2 hours...I come back and it says "There was a error installing, please try reinstalling". So I say nuts, and reboot to try a older version of osx (10.4.6) only to find that the computer gets hung up at my BIOS welcome screen, in my case the "PA1 MVP-ATI CROSSFIRE" Screen. It would not budge from this screen. So I started unhooking stuff to find out that it boots up fine when the hard drive is disconnected, but as soon as i plug it in, it gets stuck again.I have tryed reseting my whole BIOS and tryed moving all the jumpers around on the HD and i get the same outcome. Any ideas on what could have happend? I cant beleive a failed install would keep a whole system from booting up, and i dont mean like "windows xp" or "osx" i mean the BASE motherboard system wont go anywhere.I cant even reformat the harddrive the way it is now. Heres my specs if it helps... Mobo: ECS Elite group PA1-MVP V2.0 Harddrive: Western Digital ATA 80 GB DVD: Lite On dvd rom drive Pentium D 3 ghz Also... I have a sata drive that still works, any ideas on how to get disk utillity to read it? Of course... if its going to do the same thing that it did to my IDE drive then i dont want to mess with it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45502-strange-ide-harddrivemotherboard-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
musket Posted March 17, 2007 Author Share Posted March 17, 2007 Im starting to think this could be more a motherboard problem instead of the hard drive, i dont know why/ what could have happend... like somthing has shut down my ide for harddrives. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45502-strange-ide-harddrivemotherboard-problem/#findComment-325841 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 (edited) Check you RAM and all of your extension cards (I mean, PCI, AGP, etc). Make sure everything is plugged in correctly. Also check the HDD cables and make sure the power supplies are correctly attached. Go to your BIOS and see your IDE controllers are enabled and if the HDD is automatically recognized (if set to manual, reset to auto). If the HDD shows up in auto detection, then maybe you have to check your boot options. Finally, check if your HDD is correctly set to MASTER (the little pin in the back). hecker Edited March 17, 2007 by hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45502-strange-ide-harddrivemotherboard-problem/#findComment-325897 Share on other sites More sharing options...
musket Posted March 17, 2007 Author Share Posted March 17, 2007 I would do everything you say but the thing is, i cant even get into bios settings when the drive i plugged in, its like bios cant even launch. I have set the jumpers to cable select, i also tryed master... same problem. Its really weird... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45502-strange-ide-harddrivemotherboard-problem/#findComment-325919 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 Replace the IDE cable and leave the HDD set to MASTER. Does the board boot with other drives? hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45502-strange-ide-harddrivemotherboard-problem/#findComment-326046 Share on other sites More sharing options...
musket Posted March 17, 2007 Author Share Posted March 17, 2007 I tryed replacing the cable... no change. As for other devices, a dvd-rom drive detects fine and boots up, as for testing another hard drive... well i dont have one I also just re-flashed bios and there was no change... im really beggining to think the hard drive is junk. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45502-strange-ide-harddrivemotherboard-problem/#findComment-326055 Share on other sites More sharing options...
idividebyzero Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 connect the hdd to a different computer and see if it does the same, that will rule out the motherboard. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45502-strange-ide-harddrivemotherboard-problem/#findComment-326068 Share on other sites More sharing options...
musket Posted March 17, 2007 Author Share Posted March 17, 2007 connect the hdd to a different computer and see if it does the same, that will rule out the motherboard. I would if i had another computer... I may just buy another mobo and HD seeing as im having TONS of trouble with this one. btw. anyone know how to get sata working? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45502-strange-ide-harddrivemotherboard-problem/#findComment-326072 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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