Anyway heres step by step what I did. I boot to the Dell reinstallation disk. The windows setup screen appears and loads files. The next screen says welcome to setup and offers three options. Setup did not find any hard disk installed in your computer. Make sure any hard disk drives are powered on and properly connected. And any disk related configuration is correct.
Press F3 to quit. It dose this if I try repair also. Dell had me check the connections to the HD and Motherboard. And debug the hard drive. No luck. Everything worked fine until I put in the reinstallation disk. Any help would be welcome. If so, press F6. Now you are in trouble, because SATA drivers come on a floppy and new er Dells don't have a floppy anymore. Borrow a floppy-drive from another PC and install that in your Dell. That may cause another problem. I completely feel your pain.
I have the same system and just fixed the same problem. Here's what I did. And by the way, 2 hours of tech support with Dell did nothing for me other than give me practice understanding Pakistan accents. Reboot your system and hit F2 as soon as you see the Dell startup screen the options are F2 for setup, F12 for boot sequence.
In the System Setup screen, do these steps. Select Drives: Make sure your Diskette Drive 3. Setup will load, hit enter to reinstall XP. Your HD should now be detected and you should see the licensing agreement.
If you have your files backed up I reccommend deleting the partition and reformatting prior to installing XP, it will give you that option after the license agreement. Hope that helps! Good luck! Reactions: khald Nafie , Rocky Hamilton and Ronald Thank you tyleryoungblood, your solution work like a charm for me. I'm really happy that i don't have to return the computer i just got after waiting for 2 weeks. WallyKid said:. I'm actually not planning on installing a new HDD, at least not for a while.
I just want to format and install XP Pro. The first time is always hard, but it does get easier as you carry out more reinstalls. The bios change to ATA will result in a major performance drop. No NCQ support either. Post Reply. Top Contributor. Dell Support Resources. Latest Solutions. Bear in mind that there are only two 5. Thank you, ejn63, for your kind response. I did not see your post sooner because I have been on-line trying to figure out about these cables.
Good comment about better to buy a new floppy drive then to expect a legacy drive to fit the new case. It seems to late to change now--either to add the floppy or to cancel the order and start over with one of the other models that you suggested. I searched for discussions on choosing expandable systems on the Dell forums before I ordered the Dimension , but I missed something there. Yes, there are two power supply rails but 4 SATA connectors on the system board.
Perplexing is it not, especially as they seem to be really close to each other. Because of that I need at a minimum a power cable extension adapter so that power will reach the SATA in the front bay. I have searched for a simple cable extension adapter. There does seem to be a product only one that I can find that provides a Y-split to take the a rail to 2 connectors if the power supply can handle it.
From the power supply information in the Dimension technical manual link in thread starter , the 4 pin power connectors do not have a 3.
That pin of the SATA drive is fed 5 volts by these other adapters. I did find a web article that confirmed the practice, mentioning that most? SATA drives seemed to be tolerant of the 5 volts. Refer to the voltage diagram for connectors P6, P8 and P9 vs. P3 and P5 for the Dell Dimension power supply. It seems a better idea to me to use the 15 pin power rail with Y-split adapter, if the Dell power supply can handle it. I can put one of the Kingwin caddy systems into an external hard drive bay cabinet if I can work out power for it.
Initially I only have to have one externally accessible drive so initially going external is not necessary. These are the unresolved issues: Is the Y cable adapter I found really 15 pin to 2 X 15 pin, as it seems?
What would the power supply do if a third SATA were added to the rail? Is it really okay to use the 4 pin to 15 pin SATA adapters, do the drives really not mind? I would not consider splitting a single power tap to supply two drives. You could run into spinup problems - drives draw their maximum power at spinup and a split rail might not provide enough to spin both drives. So have many Maxtor drives but I wouldn't consider one from that manufacturer anyway, given its current financial state and reputation for unreliability.
Up2date With the network connection up, Up2date automatically updates the rpms. The update to kernel 2. After updating the kernel, the network driver needs to be recompiled for the kernel. Instructions are in the driver download. I downloaded the 0. EvilTed 2 Bronze. I can confirm that Fedora Core 3 will install on a Dimension system. I've not tried rebuilding the kernal to pick up AHCI support, but this is a possibility too. My system now dual boots with Windows XP Pro without issue.
I also have two SATA drives. I'd like to know as well. Suse 9. All with default settings. Post Reply. Top Contributor. Dell Support Resources. Latest Solutions.
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