Small, but very annoying, HD problem

[Praetor]

How do I set it in BIOS? I went into the utility available on startup and couldn't find out how to do it there, so is there another way?

Well if you check that box first, you might not have to goto BIOS As for getting to BIOS, press Delete or F1 or something when the machine first turns on

So is it normal for it to show only one HD and one CD drive, or is there some way to change this? Because it wouldn't let me set turn the two other drives on.

Ya seems like you have a master/slave issue, have a look at the jumpers again

(edit: it is set to PIO mode, btw)

Bingo, you're gonna have to go through BIOS and enable the DMA

 

[cdmjr]

I don't want to get hasty and call you a genius yet, but it seems to be working properly. The video files are playing perfect, so I'm going to run it through the gauntlet of stuff that wasn't working previously, and see what reaction I get from the drive.

I just set the BIOS to "Auto" and it was the jumper problem. I had the original, factory HD set to Western Digital jumper settings, but I found out what drive it was, and used the right settings. So now the jumpers are right, and it seems that things are working. And it's also now set to DMA.

The CD drives hooked to the secondary IDE cable were having the same connection problems as the first, with the second disk (my CD drive) not being found...well it's a lot of junk, but the lesson is, as always: I'm an idiot. Woohoo!

 

[cdmjr]

Yeah it's definitely fixed. Thanks a bunch!

It's always something so damn simple.