i am fixin my boss' pc for him.he just asked me to put his new hdd in... Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 80GB ATA-133 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-014-MD)
and it loads up the boot screen...then it says searching for primary ide drive. then it freezes.i have it set as a master but no joy. i tried puttin it in this machine and formattin it.works fine! so dunno the prob.tried settin it as a slave and lettin its old 6gb run as primary.doesnt work either.![]()
so plz any suggestions. will a 450mhz pentium 3 with 320mb sdram run a ata 133 drive?
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so plz any suggestions. will a 450mhz pentium 3 with 320mb sdram run a ata 133 drive?
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dunno wtf's the prob v annoying. it does have 2 other drives tho.a dvd-rw and a dvd.i ll try disconnecting them thenn. turnin it on.



entium 3 450mhz with 327mb sdram, if works 80gb maxtor diamondmax plus 9 80gb ata133 7200rpm 8mb cache...also asus dvd-rw and old unbranded dvd drive.
