chaos945
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- Joined
- 10 Feb 2003
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My motherboard has been doing this randomly for quite a while; what is happening is it boots up, starts the self diagnostics, beeps twice, then skips over the Primary Slave device saying that it was not detected, unfortunately this happens to be my secondary hard drive and it’s vital to my other systems. I can't seem to find the beep code for this error either, I can only assume due to the characteristics of the problem that it must be some kind of IDE device failure or something there about. Powering down the system and restarting solves the problem when it does arise, I'd just like a permanent fix or reassurance that I'm not going to end up losing data.
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I suspect it could be Asus's Software Division’s false positive on a device failure as well, their software writers are not the best in the world...
- Motherboard:
- A7N8X Deluxe Rev. 1.04 latest BIOS v1.006
Hard Drives: - Primary Master, Maxtor 30GB, 3 years old
- Primary Slave, Maxtor 40GB 1 year old (this one fails randomly)
- Secondary Master: DVD-ROM
- Secondary Slave: CD-Writer
Power Source: - 350W
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I suspect it could be Asus's Software Division’s false positive on a device failure as well, their software writers are not the best in the world...