CAN YOU ANSWER?THIS IS ON MY SEC. PC

ZiNC · Post by **ZiNC** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:34 pm

when i press open buttonand open PC it gives this message:
PRİ MASTER:Maxtor 4D040H2 DAH017E0
S.M.A.R.T capable but command failed

.......................................................

Primary master hardisk error
press F1 to resume

then it says boot device not detected pls enter boot device and restart.

---WHEN I ENTER THE BIOS---

Primary IDE master:Not detected
Primary IDE slave:Not detected

and it doesnt load windows or such thing i fixed it by disabling S.M.A.R.T but dont know if it will work i really nead this PC coz i use the internet with this,but play SRO with other PC so anyone can help me?i know its a Harddisk error but why it occurs and how to fix?

Thx,
ZiNC

Sharp324 · Post by **Sharp324** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:39 pm

Maybe its about to flop...

Deacon · Post by **Deacon** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:39 pm

Your harddrive crashed. Remove the Master. Make the slave Master and the one that was Master = Dead.

ZiNC · Post by **ZiNC** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:46 pm

Deacon wrote:Your harddrive crashed. Remove the Master. Make the slave Master and the one that was Master = Dead.

no im on this PC right now the master is working but it crashed and was down for 1 hour.i mean why it happened?

agent420 · Post by **agent420** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:24 pm

ZiNC wrote:
Deacon wrote:Your harddrive crashed. Remove the Master. Make the slave Master and the one that was Master = Dead.

no im on this PC right now the master is working but it crashed and was down for 1 hour.i mean why it happened?

stop looking at so much porn!!!!

Disturbed · Post by **Disturbed** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:24 pm

ZiNC wrote:
Deacon wrote:Your harddrive crashed. Remove the Master. Make the slave Master and the one that was Master = Dead.

no im on this PC right now the master is working but it crashed and was down for 1 hour.i mean why it happened?

Check the cable, make sure it's in all the way.

ZiNC · Post by **ZiNC** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:27 am

agent420 wrote:
ZiNC wrote:
Deacon wrote:Your harddrive crashed. Remove the Master. Make the slave Master and the one that was Master = Dead.

no im on this PC right now the master is working but it crashed and was down for 1 hour.i mean why it happened?

stop looking at so much porn!!!!

wow i guess thats the problem

lol

HakubiNi · Post by **HakubiNi** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:57 am

Probably the HD cable is poorly connected, open your case and tighten it. On the worse case your HD got fried... I had one HD fried because it was poorly connected (and kept turning on/off several times in a second, which let to it frying).

pinoyplaya · Post by **pinoyplaya** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:26 am

LOL, your motherboard is not detecting the primary drive thus it cannot boot.

You have to select the primary drive in the BIOS and make sure the drive you selected as Primary Drive is where the OS is installed in.

That's all you gotta do. I guess you must have added a second drive or if not, you messed up your BIOS.

PR0METHEUS · Post by **PR0METHEUS** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:17 pm

As some have mentioned above, it is probably just a loose data cable connecting the hard drive to the motherboard.

Make sure the computer is turned off, open the case, pull the data cable out of the hard drive and motherboard and plug it back in both ends. Make sure it's in tight. Then turn the computer back on and it should be fine.

I was also going to suggest checking the jumpers on the hard drives themselves. If you don't know about jumpers, they are tiny caps that go over pins on the back of the drive. They should be labeled "MA" and "SL" and "CS" or similar. You mentioned you have 2 hard drives. The drive with Windows installed on it should be set to "MA" and the other set to "SL".

Since I think you said that the computer does boot up sometimes (you said in a post you were ON that computer), the jumpers are likely not the problem. It's just something else to check.