Western Digital WD120JB and NF7-S
August Pamplona
Digital WD120JB hard disk?
August Pamplona
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John Lewis
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> Has anybody gotten Windows XP setup to work on a NF7-S with a Western
>Digital WD120JB hard disk?
>
Exactly where is it not working ?
John Lewis
August Pamplona
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> On Fri, 09 May 2003 23:32:54 GMT, "August Pamplona"
> <necatoramericanusa...@mail.com> wrote:
>
> > Has anybody gotten Windows XP setup to work on a NF7-S with a Western
> >Digital WD120JB hard disk?
I think I missed a zero in the model number (should be WD1200JB). It's
the 7200 rpm 120Gb special edition model with the 8Mb cache.
> >
>
> Exactly where is it not working ?
>
> John Lewis
Setup stalls on a black screen right after the message "Setup is
inspecting your computer hardware configuration..." appears on the screen.
When other hard drives are connected (and the WD1200JB is not), the black
screen is shortly followed by a blue screen that lists various drivers as
they load, etc. and it eventually requests user input to decide what type of
an install is going to be implemented.
The problem manifested itself in a previous NF7-S which I returned
mainly because of a COM port problem (it also had some other intermittent
apparent hardware problems but the port issue was what became 100%
reproducible). The returned motherboard also shows the problem (indicating
it is not peculiar to that particular individual motherboard).
XP setup works fine on a different motherboard (an MVP3 chipset based
Soyo 5-EMA) when using this hard disk.
XP setup worked correctly (at least beyond that sticking point --I
didn't actually bother going further with the second motherboard because all
I wanted to do at that moment is test that issue) on the NF7-S motherboards
as long as any hard drive but the WD1200JB was connected (I tried an older
Western Digital model, a Maxtor and a Samsung --no problems).
I conjectured that the problem might have something to do with using
fairly old cdrom drives in the system (tested with three from 1995 -
1997 --I mean, who'd think to test that drive and that motherboard with
hardware that obsolete?) but also disproved this hypothesis as of this
friday when I put in a brand new cdrom drive (the rewriter shown at
http://128.121.183.208/cdrw_dri_48x.html).
I tried setting all the settings in the BIOS as low performing as
possible (PIO 0, ultra DMA disabled) for anything in the IDE chain with no
change. I also tried disabling it at the drive level (Western Digital has a
utility to manage UltraATA for this purpose).
Colon Terminus
Check your jumpers. WD drives are particularly sensitive to jumper settings.
Your particular drive wants NO jumpers if it is the ONLY drive in the
machine.
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Martin T.
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> Digital WD120JB hard disk?
No problem here. Running a Western Digital WD120JB (Boot-drive) and a
WD100JB (Data drive).
Remember not to put any jumpers on the WD120JB when running it as Master. I
had put a Master jumper on mine. And at first it wouldn't boot, but after
removing it = no problems. I did a clean install of Win XP SP1 without
problems.
Regards, Martin (Denmark)
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>
> Check your jumpers. WD drives are particularly sensitive to jumper
settings.
> Your particular drive wants NO jumpers if it is the ONLY drive in the
> machine.
>
You mean if it's the only drive in the IDE channel, right?
Yup. that's the way I have it (actually in one of the neutral positions
according to WD --though I've tried it with no jumper at all, on account of
this suggestion on this thread, just for the heck of it). And, for what it's
worth, the BIOS recognizes the drive and I could run Windows on it (at least
Windows 98 --though it doesn't run it acceptably since support for the
nForce drivers tarts at 98SE, but it runs it nevertheless). I could probably
set it up on a different hard drive and copy the partition over (but,
assuming, it works, it's cumbersome to say the least --maybe not so bad as
long as I don't need to run setup very often).
Colon Terminus
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> >
> > Check your jumpers. WD drives are particularly sensitive to jumper
> settings.
> > Your particular drive wants NO jumpers if it is the ONLY drive in the
> > machine.
> >
>
> You mean if it's the only drive in the IDE channel, right?
>
Well, yeh. That's what I meant.
Colin Smith
curious as I am about to buy one.
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[-AY-]Gothic
but worked fine after setting the jumpers to cableselect !
August Pamplona
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> worx fine here with this wd-hd. @ installation some problems with
detection
> but worked fine after setting the jumpers to cableselect !
>
I have confirmed that it works fine with XP (as I expected and no big
surprise since I already knew it can run 98). I'm going to have to try the
cable select thing (it never even occurred to me to try that).