Anonymous Posted on Nov 12, 2011

In the boot device menu, drive 1: no ide device what does this mean?

My computer will not start up, it shows the dell screen then goes to black screen with alot of writing starting with , we apologize for the inconvenience, and giving 5 ways to restart the computer then it trys to restart every 30 seconds. I have done a ide drive diagnostics check and it says Primary IDE Drive 0: WDCWD800BB-75HAO - PASS Drive 1: No IDE device Secondary IDE Drive 0: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4481B - Diagnostics not supported Drive 1: No IDE device WHAT DOES THIS MEAN AND HOW TO FIX

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Test for secure dust free connections or replace the 40 pin ide lead from mother board to hard drive
include electrical extensions
operating system cant find ide hard drive
hope it helps

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