2006-07-22 06:08:55 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
It won't work...what did you think would happen?
The jumpers (I assume you refer to the Master/Slave/Cable-Select settings) tell the device how to act with relation to other devices operated on the same controller port. You set a slave with no master and it may not communicate right. You can have a master with no slave however. The worst situation is two masters or two slaves. Drives will not be accessible then.
2006-07-22 06:10:54 · answer #1 · answered by The Grand Inquisitor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you set them wrong, they won't be detected by the BIOS.
With most computers from the last 5 years, you can leave the jumpers on Cable Select (the default), and all will be well.
With older computers, if you have just 1 hd, set it to Master.
With 2 hard drives on the same ribbon, the drive attached to the end of the ribbon is the Master drive - this one should have the OS installed - and the hd attached to the middle of the ribbon is the Slave drive.
If you've done this right but the BIOS still can't detect the hd, you're probably installing a big-*** drive that the motherboard wasn't made to handle (drives bigger than 120GB can have this problem.) In this case, visit the website of the hd manufacturor. They all have downloads to set this right.
After you've correctly installed the additional hd (detected by the BIOS), fire up the pc and format it. With Win 2000/ XP, right-click My Computer, select Manage, select Disk Management, select Initialize Disk.
2006-07-22 13:24:38 · answer #2 · answered by OMG, I ♥ PONIES!!1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By HD I assume you are referring to the hard drive.
the jumpers usually give you the selections to select the interface your drive will use to communicate with your system board
There are normally 2 interfaces and 2 slots on each interface
the jumpers select are used to select 1 of the four and must match the way you have connected the drive to your system.
If the jumpers are set wrong, you may have several different problems depending on the setup.
these problems would all be either booting problems at worst
data written to or read from wrong drive
or hard drive and cdrom drive communication problems.
If two drives are set up to use the same interface they will interfere with each other.
The confusing part of this is that there is no standard in the labeling of the jumper setup arrangement. The names used by different manufacturers of drives vary and cause confusion.
2006-07-22 13:29:40 · answer #3 · answered by mickyyyyy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the jumpers are not set correctly the drive will not work at the best and the drive will be destroyed at the worst.
2006-07-22 13:11:33 · answer #4 · answered by ijcoffin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the jumpers designate if the drive is a Master or slave......and the drive's physical address ( C, D, E...etc )
if you don't configure them properly...your PC won't know which drive to boot from......or possibly won't find them at all...
2006-07-22 13:11:43 · answer #5 · answered by Campbell Gramma 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Best case scenario is the drives will be reversed in order.
Example, if installing a new drive, the new drive will be the C: drive, and your C: drive will be D:.
Worst cases are you will not see one, the other or both drives, however you won't damage them.
2006-07-22 13:24:35 · answer #6 · answered by SuperTech 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋