Detecting ide driver

Detecting IDE drives. Thread starter budiselic. Forums Hardware Motherboards. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Previous Next Sort by votes. Jan 8, 3 0 0. Battery had 0. Start-up beep Booting up the computer was slow and then it get's stuck at "Detecting IDE drives Reboot and then again the same thing Jul 4, 5, 16, What version of Windows are you using?

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Started by shizoid Today at AM Replies: 5. Any ideas? Joined Oct 1, Messages 5, Just to be clear, you're talking only about bootups right, and not about unplugging any USB devices but about unplugging IDE-connected devices? The only things I tinker with are inside the actual case. If its not that for sure then an intermittent problem like that is tough to diagnose. Does the BIOS ever lose integrity at all and need re-tweaking from time to time? You might try replacing the battery if it does. Otherwise if you can leave one most likely suspect first IDE device unattached at a time and run normally for an extended period and see if the problem crops up again or not.

It might be tough to find the problem though until you can reproduce the error at will. Thanks for the input. I'll see what happens the next time it goes out on me.

Until then, this thread is done. As Seen On. Welcome to Tech Support Guy! Latest posts S. Windows Freezes when idle Latest: SmoothMercy 17 minutes ago. Windows Please help Latest: peterrn 47 minutes ago. Laptop not charging Latest: plodr Today at AM. Windows 7. Android Mobile Devices. I couldn't wait around long enough to see if it would go at some point because I was on my way to work, but I did wait a good couple of minutes.

Any suggestions as to what's going on, or what I can do? Would that cause this problem? Thanks to anyone that can help! A bad floppy drive can cause all kinds of boot problems and or system instability problems. How old is this machine? Have you recently added any new hardware devices? Let us know. So here's what I did: I unplugged the floppy disk drive. Still did not work. I then unplugged the primary drive aka the GB and then the slave drive aka the 80GB did in fact register.

I took the floppy drive completey out, as I don't even remember the last time I used the forbidden thing. I then switched around the hard drive cables so that the one that was connected to the floppy disk was now connected to one of the hard drives. After I did that, everything started working. Is it common for these cables the wide, thin, and flat ones to stop working or go out? Any other suggestions as to what might have caused the problem?

The machine is less than a year old mainly put together myself , and I have not recently added any new hardware.