Hey all,my friend bought some new hardware today...a WD Hard Drive 80gb 8mb cache, some fans, ram and a ati 9600 pro 256mbNow...he installed everything and so far the only things that work are the fans and the ram. His hard drive is connected but it doesnt appear when pc is turned on...now i was wondering if anyone could help me on what jumper settings he needs...he already has another hard drive with windows on it..so the new one would be a slave ( ?)then..the radeon as soon as the pc is turned on the monitor doesnt have an image...so its like as if there was nothing connected to the monitor which is on....i told him to check all the connections and stuff..but still nothing...any kind of feedback is appreciated,thanks,dario

I recommend the new disk drive be disconnected temporarily, i.e., remove the power plug and disk drive cable. This will remove the disk drive from the problem.Once the disk drive is removed, restart the computer to see if the monitor starts. If not, remove the new video card and return to the original card or on-board graphics adapter. Restart the computer to see if it works.If so, and the graphics adapter is an on-board, it may need to be disabled in BIOS prior to installing the new card. Restart the computer, enter BIOS, find the on-board items, and disable the on-board graphics adapter, exit BIOS and save the new settings. Install the new graphics adapter and see if it comes up in the DOS (BLACK SCREEN) or Windows mode. If not, it could be that the new card is faulty or other things need set prior to it working.If the new card works, install the drivers for the new card.Assuming the new card is working. Reinstall the new disk drive. Restart the computer, enter BIOS, and ensure BIOS is detecting the new drive. Also make sure the new disk drive is jumper set to SLAVE. I would also recommend making sure the old disk drive is set to MASTER vice Cable Select. If BIOS detects the new drive, then it is time to partition and format the new drive.If using WinXP, you can partition and format using two different formats, FAT32 and NTFS. If you are not going to make different partitions, i.e., D:, E:, F:, etc., then you would be better to use NTFS as it will not waste as much space as FAT32 does for cluster sizes. Visit http://www.xmission.com/~comphope/jargon/hdd.htm for different definitions of FAT32, NTFS, FDISK, etc.Try some of the above and get back with specific problems as they occur.W. Sieffert