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vjm2122 · 03-08-2006, 07:28 PM

I have a dell dimension 4600. When I boot it beeps twice and on the screen is this:

SATA Primary drive 0 not found
Secondary drive 0 not found
Secondary drive 1 not found

Strike the f1 key to continue F2 to run the setup utility

so I go into setup and under device configuration:
Sata Primary Drive ........................Unknown Device
Sata Secondary Drive.................... OFF
Primary Master drive..................... OFF
Primary Slave drive....................... OFF
Secondary Master Drive............... Unknown Device
Secondary Slave Drive.................. Unknown Device

IDE Drive UDMA................................ ON

It doesnt seem like the sata hard drive is powering on because I dont hear it at all I have a power converter cable converting the power from the normal ide pin to the sata power I dont know if that has something to do with it or not. I had to replace the power supply because it died but I didnt get one with the sata connections by accident and I had a converter so I used that instead. The cd drive and burner drive both power on but are not recognized.

Any help would be appreciated.

03-08-2006, 07:28 PM	#1 (permalink)
vjm2122 Newb Techie Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 24	Unknown hard drive and optical drives in bios I have a dell dimension 4600. When I boot it beeps twice and on the screen is this: SATA Primary drive 0 not found Secondary drive 0 not found Secondary drive 1 not found Strike the f1 key to continue F2 to run the setup utility so I go into setup and under device configuration: Sata Primary Drive ........................Unknown Device Sata Secondary Drive.................... OFF Primary Master drive..................... OFF Primary Slave drive....................... OFF Secondary Master Drive............... Unknown Device Secondary Slave Drive.................. Unknown Device IDE Drive UDMA................................ ON It doesnt seem like the sata hard drive is powering on because I dont hear it at all I have a power converter cable converting the power from the normal ide pin to the sata power I dont know if that has something to do with it or not. I had to replace the power supply because it died but I didnt get one with the sata connections by accident and I had a converter so I used that instead. The cd drive and burner drive both power on but are not recognized. Any help would be appreciated.