Lets start with the background on my system. I put together a system a couple years ago for my wifes home computer. I tried to put together something we wouldn't really need to upgrade as even though I work in the semiconductor industry I really am not a fan of new electronics (except the bigger TV, and what guy doesn't want that). So here is a the short list of my computer.
Computer was a Gateway Bare Bones BTX FX250 I bought for dirt Cheap
Motherboard included is a Intel D915GSE2
CPU I put an Intel Pent 4 3.8Ghz processor (socket 775)
The computer has 4 Gig of Ram (the max it will take) and it has onboard video, but I added a PCI video card to run dual monitors (I don't remember the model of that card at the moment I can check if needed).
And to the issue. The hard drive I put in it at the time of putting it together was a used 140 GB IDE drive from a previous computer. This hard drive is basically wearing out. It gets errors and continues to have issues. I constantly have to run check disks and defrags and it finds more and more bad sectors. It crashes and I get blue screen of death and so on.
So I decided it was time to put a new drive in it and since I was putting a new drive I wanted to upgrade. Maybe my decision making is really my issue. Anyway so I bought a Seagate SCSI drive. (It is a Seagate Cheetah, Ultra320 model ST3146707LC), and I bought a SCSI controller (Adaptec AHA-2940UW). Of course not knowing much about SCSI I found out as I went, and had to buy the 80 pin to 68 pin adaptor and then setup on the 68 pin SCSI cable.
The new controller is installed into the PCI slot and hard drive mounted etc. The only jumper I set on the hard drive was to set it to SCSI ID 3 as I was told the card will set to ID 0 or 1.
If I boot up in windows (still on the IDE drive) the computer will see the card and installs it fine, windows has a driver for it and I didn't even need the CD for it. But it does not find the drive.
If I boot from the windows CD to install a new partition and windows on that drive, again it finds the controller just fine, but when I get to the screen to partition the hard drive it lists my IDE and an "unknown device."
I should add, originally I did not put any jumpers (which should default it to SCSI 0) and in my searching found it should not be 0 and changed it to 3, after that changed during the boot I get a message, "SCSI device found" and then immediately after something like SCSI BIOS not installed or something like that.
So I am guessing I am missing a jumper on the SCSI drive or a setting somewhere in BIOS or something. I am glad to add screenshots if helpful, but can someone please help me setup the new drive.
Computer was a Gateway Bare Bones BTX FX250 I bought for dirt Cheap
Motherboard included is a Intel D915GSE2
CPU I put an Intel Pent 4 3.8Ghz processor (socket 775)
The computer has 4 Gig of Ram (the max it will take) and it has onboard video, but I added a PCI video card to run dual monitors (I don't remember the model of that card at the moment I can check if needed).
And to the issue. The hard drive I put in it at the time of putting it together was a used 140 GB IDE drive from a previous computer. This hard drive is basically wearing out. It gets errors and continues to have issues. I constantly have to run check disks and defrags and it finds more and more bad sectors. It crashes and I get blue screen of death and so on.
So I decided it was time to put a new drive in it and since I was putting a new drive I wanted to upgrade. Maybe my decision making is really my issue. Anyway so I bought a Seagate SCSI drive. (It is a Seagate Cheetah, Ultra320 model ST3146707LC), and I bought a SCSI controller (Adaptec AHA-2940UW). Of course not knowing much about SCSI I found out as I went, and had to buy the 80 pin to 68 pin adaptor and then setup on the 68 pin SCSI cable.
The new controller is installed into the PCI slot and hard drive mounted etc. The only jumper I set on the hard drive was to set it to SCSI ID 3 as I was told the card will set to ID 0 or 1.
If I boot up in windows (still on the IDE drive) the computer will see the card and installs it fine, windows has a driver for it and I didn't even need the CD for it. But it does not find the drive.
If I boot from the windows CD to install a new partition and windows on that drive, again it finds the controller just fine, but when I get to the screen to partition the hard drive it lists my IDE and an "unknown device."
I should add, originally I did not put any jumpers (which should default it to SCSI 0) and in my searching found it should not be 0 and changed it to 3, after that changed during the boot I get a message, "SCSI device found" and then immediately after something like SCSI BIOS not installed or something like that.
So I am guessing I am missing a jumper on the SCSI drive or a setting somewhere in BIOS or something. I am glad to add screenshots if helpful, but can someone please help me setup the new drive.