Hard Drive Not Recognized

Appreciate some assistance.

Have an AZZa mainboard, 5VMX, with an AMD K6-2/550 CPU and an AWARD BIOS 07/04/2000-VP3-586B-W877-2A5LEP8AC-00.

Trying to install a hard drive, and it will not recognize it. Keep getting "Primary Master hard disk failure" over and over.

This computer was infected by a virus a while back. It was never quite right, so decided to clear out the hard drive, and start from scratch. However, the BIOS will not auto detect the hard drive that was on it, nor any other hard drive. Have tried 3 different ones.

The cables are tight, and connected correctly.

Any ideas on what to do?

 

Will the bios post? Is the right boot sequence set? A,C,CDROM?
Can you get a cdrom to show? Switched ide channels?

 

Is this hard drive a secondary drive? -- meaning that you already have another drive in your computer, and you want to use this drive as storage?

If so, have you made sure that the jumpers on the back of the new drive is set to Slave? If it is set on Master, it is conflicting with your other hard drive which is set on Master as well, therefore no drives will be present and you'll get the "Primary Master hard disk failure" message.

 

Could be a bad cable. do you have another to try?
bob