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Thomas Jollans

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 5:25 pm
Post subject: ST310211A fail
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I bought a seagate 10giga hard drive st310211a from ebay (not used) and
tried to build it into my PC. All tries failed. I tried it alone on an
IDE channel (both master, slave AND cable select), with my CD ROM and
with my other seagate hdd(40gb) alone the bios didn't recognize it and
with manual config it said fail. together with another drive both
weren't recognized. my mothermoard is: ASUS P4T-M BIOS Revision 1002
MEDIONPC. Has anyone got a sugestion? Or has someone else had this
problem? Will a BIOS update from ASUS help? Is there something wrong
with the disk?

Thanks in advance,
Thomas Jollans

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Mr. Slow

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 5:25 pm
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"Thomas Jollans" <nospam DeleteThis @jollans.com> wrote in message
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 > I bought a seagate 10giga hard drive st310211a from ebay (not used) and
 > tried to build it into my PC. All tries failed. I tried it alone on an
 > IDE channel (both master, slave AND cable select), with my CD ROM and
 > with my other seagate hdd(40gb) alone the bios didn't recognize it and
 > with manual config it said fail. together with another drive both
 > weren't recognized. my mothermoard is: ASUS P4T-M BIOS Revision 1002
 > MEDIONPC. Has anyone got a sugestion? Or has someone else had this
 > problem? Will a BIOS update from ASUS help? Is there something wrong
 > with the disk?
 >
 > Thanks in advance,
 > Thomas Jollans

It sounds as if your drive is faulty. With brand new, warranted hard drive
prices at an all-time low, I fail to understand why anyone buys this sort of
stuff on e bay.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->

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S.Heenan

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 5:25 pm
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Thomas Jollans wrote:
 > I bought a seagate 10giga hard drive st310211a from ebay (not used)
 > and tried to build it into my PC. All tries failed. I tried it alone
 > on an IDE channel (both master, slave AND cable select), with my CD
 > ROM and with my other seagate hdd(40gb) alone the bios didn't
 > recognize it and with manual config it said fail. together with
 > another drive both weren't recognized. my mothermoard is: ASUS P4T-M
 > BIOS Revision 1002 MEDIONPC. Has anyone got a sugestion? Or has
 > someone else had this problem? Will a BIOS update from ASUS help? Is
 > there something wrong with the disk?

Set the BIOS to auto-detect the hard drive. Jumper it as Master and place it
on the end of the IDE ribbon. See if it isn't recognized by the BIOS. You
can also try it in another PC. Run the Seatools diagnostic suite from a
floppy.
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/" target="_blank">http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/</a><!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 5:38 pm
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"Thomas Jollans" <nospam DeleteThis @jollans.com> wrote in message
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 > I bought a seagate 10giga hard drive st310211a from ebay (not used) and
 > tried to build it into my PC. All tries failed. I tried it alone on an
 > IDE channel (both master, slave AND cable select), with my CD ROM and
 > with my other seagate hdd(40gb) alone the bios didn't recognize it and
 > with manual config it said fail. together with another drive both
 > weren't recognized. my mothermoard is: ASUS P4T-M BIOS Revision 1002
 > MEDIONPC. Has anyone got a sugestion? Or has someone else had this
 > problem? Will a BIOS update from ASUS help? Is there something wrong
 > with the disk?
 >
 > Thanks in advance,
 > Thomas Jollans

If the BIOS isn't seeing it then it may be a dead disk.

When you turn the power on does it spin up and click as it goes through its
self-test.

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Crooked-Ridez

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(Msg. 5) Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 1:46 am
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I wonder how much you paid for that little 10 gig?...Good (bigger) HD's are
so cheap today.
E-bay is the worst place for computer hardware, besides pricewatch of course
Smile

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"Thomas Jollans" <nospam.TakeThisOut@jollans.com> wrote in message
news:btma3t$25t$06$1@news.t-online.com...
 > I bought a seagate 10giga hard drive st310211a from ebay (not used) and
 > tried to build it into my PC. All tries failed. I tried it alone on an
 > IDE channel (both master, slave AND cable select), with my CD ROM and
 > with my other seagate hdd(40gb) alone the bios didn't recognize it and
 > with manual config it said fail. together with another drive both
 > weren't recognized. my mothermoard is: ASUS P4T-M BIOS Revision 1002
 > MEDIONPC. Has anyone got a sugestion? Or has someone else had this
 > problem? Will a BIOS update from ASUS help? Is there something wrong
 > with the disk?
 >
 > Thanks in advance,
 > Thomas Jollans<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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