does this sound DOA?

[fizler]

bought a 30 gig maxtor today, set it up as the slave....... didn't boot. set it as master, didn't boot. tried the first two things about 3 times, rechecked jumpers, no luck. that damn boot disk didn't help either. anyway is there something special that i have to do for this bitch to work? LOL. I've having a hell of a time with computers this week!

[Chris Wolfe]

Is it recognized in the bios?

[siggy]

I had a Maxtor I had to send back. It would not do anything.

[geekboy]

I hope you get it working... I use that very drive in my main machine, and it's been great for the past year.:cool: You might have to be more specific than "Doesn't boot" though. I'm sorry about the 'duh' factor of some of the following suggestions. ;)

Does it spin up? Does it make chattering or seeking noises? Can the BIOS auto-detect it? Will it work without any other drives on the cable? Cables correct and non-defective? Does Matrox's own 'Powermax' installation and diagnostic software recognize it? Can you fdisk/format it?

[stall6g]

Like Chris said check the stupid things like power (try a different one), ata cable etc. Also see if it is getting detected by the bios. If none of those suggestions help I would probably just send it back and get a new one.

[MechCD]

if the BIOS detects it and it won't boot, you need to set a partition as "active" using dos fdisk, or similar utility

[fizler]

it is not reconized in the bios..

[MechCD]

does it werk in another puter? if not, then it might be DOA

[fizler]

wasn't picked up on 2 other motherboards...im almost positive its doa, damnit...another delay on getting this 1.2ghz running

[siggy]

Dang you should send them a bill for the lose of production.:)