I recently bought a Dell Dimension 4550 motherboard that began by booting to the point where it says Primary Drive 0 not found.
The Primary Drive is recognized in bios, as well as as the cd drives, and it also passes the IDE diagnostic.
The Dell diagnosic lights show three green, and the far right one is yellow. I checked all the cables, which are tight.
I tried resetting the cmos, both by changing the jumper and removing the battery for ten minutes.
The primary hard drive is set to auto, the secondary is set to off in bios.
It is able to use the pci video card, but not the agp.
I started to use the installation disk, but none of the cd drives will open.
After working on it, it now boots to setup, the hard drive chatters, then pings, and it starts all over.
I am using the hard drive right now in a Dell Optiplex 150, so it obviously works
The specs are..
Win XP Home Edition
Intel Pentium 4 2.533-Z/512/533
Intel 845PE chipset
1 stick of 512 DDR SDR Ram
NVIDIA GeForce2 mx/mx 400 64mb memory
Maxtor 5T040H4
I hope this is enough information, no doubt there is something I have overlooked though. I can't help but feel that there is one little setting, some simple thing I haven't tried. lol
Thanks for the help.
Mike