George_88 Posted January 24, 2010 Report Share Posted January 24, 2010 Hi again,I have a new build and one of my hard drives is a SCSI. For a few days, it has not been showing in Windows and it is also not being detected by the BIOS when I boot. Now, however, Windows is showing a third drive (Local Disk (Q:)), with a capacity of 0 bytes. I have no other devices plugged in to any ports so this must either be an error or it must be my SCSI drive. I clicked "check for errors" under properties but it says Windows can't access the drive. What is it? Why can't Windows access it? And why is it 0 bytes?Thanks for your support,George. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted January 24, 2010 Report Share Posted January 24, 2010 Hi again,I have a new build and one of my hard drives is a SCSI.Do you mean a real SCSI drive with SCSI controller ....... or do you mean it is SATA ?If it is SCSI is it -a] Traditional (Parallel) SCSIb] Serial attached SCSIc] USB Attached SCSI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George_88 Posted January 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2010 Hi again,I have a new build and one of my hard drives is a SCSI.Do you mean a real SCSI drive with SCSI controller ....... or do you mean it is SATA ?If it is SCSI is it -a] Traditional (Parallel) SCSIb] Serial attached SCSIc] USB Attached SCSIHi,Yes it is a parallel SCSI with a PCI SCSI controller.Also, I wanted to add that while screwing in my USB ports I accidently touched the board with one of them and heard a little "zap", then a burning smell after. Obviously that's bad, but I'm thinking it may have something to do with the problem. My sound card is also not being detected by Windows and I think it's because of this reason. For the next two or three boot ups after that I was getting a second boot screen showing up asking me which hard drive I want to boot from. That screen is not coming up anymore and I don't know why. However, there is still an unexplained third drive showing.Thanks for your help.George.*edit* it has come to my attention that installing Office 2010 bete will cause a drive Q to appear. Any idea on the SCSI thing? thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted January 24, 2010 Report Share Posted January 24, 2010 A few possible solutions/problems :(Re. your BIOS statement - do you mean the PC BIOS ? Does the SCSI controller BIOS show as loading OK initially when you boot ?Presumably you've checked the ribbon cable is still fixed at both the card and drive ends ?Is the controller card fitted properly in the PCI slot ?Can you try the card in another PCI slot ?"while screwing in my USB ports" - do you mean you were fitting a PCI USB card while the PC was live ? If so - it doesn't sound good ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George_88 Posted January 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2010 A few possible solutions/problems :(Re. your BIOS statement - do you mean the PC BIOS ? Does the SCSI controller BIOS show as loading OK initially when you boot ?Presumably you've checked the ribbon cable is still fixed at both the card and drive ends ?Is the controller card fitted properly in the PCI slot ?Can you try the card in another PCI slot ?"while screwing in my USB ports" - do you mean you were fitting a PCI USB card while the PC was live ? If so - it doesn't sound good !Hi again,No, I was not screwing in a USB card. I was screwing on a couple of USB backplates (the ones that plug in to the motherboard) and the computer was turned off but PSU was on. I usually take care of earthing myself but I was in a hurry and forgot. Anyway, I have solved the issue with the motherboard not finding my SCSI controller and sound card: they were not plugged in correctly!The case I am using is cheap and I had screwed in the PCI devices to the case thinking all was well, without realising the other end of each device was sticking out half way! So I am having to keep them plugged in without being secured to the case.The BIOS is now detecting the SCSI drive and I can also select it as a boot device. Windows also came up with a message saying it had found my SCSI device but it has no drivers for it! Grrrr, so I still cannot use it. The device manager shows them with "!" marks over them, and I can't seem to find a driver.Thanks Boris for your replies.George. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 Look for a Vista driver for whatever your SCSI controller is ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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