About Stephen Mutunga David Expertise i can answer questions on building a pc PII onwards coz in kenya its rare to get old models. am a computer technician and a can set up a computer for office use or further to that special home entertainment desktop that you will cherish and highly personalize. all my clinets end up with a smile on their faces and a question "how did you know all that?" i can also solve regarding hardware not recognized and devices drivers" problem. am also good in setting up a peer tp peer network and setting up a local area network
Experience desktops set ups, windows xp wimdows 2000, installations, repairs, laptops repairs and major softwares installations and hardware configuration
Expert: Stephen Mutunga David Date: 6/25/2008 Subject: JUMPER SETTING
Question I am very new in computer repair my problem is how to set up the jumper of drives and the effect he has on a computer.
Secondly i was working on a computer yesterday, and after booting, i had this message ' insert hard disk' while i had one install. what is the problem?
Answer what type is your hard disk?
SATA or IDE?
You can identify the hard disk by reading on its label.
as for your second question, i will assume your computer is not recognizing your hard disk.
you still have to inform me your type of disk, but here is an overview of the jumper settings
in IDE connection, there are two ports on the motherboard, primary and secondary. each of these port can support two devices, master and secondary.
the harddisk and cdrome can be used interchangebly.
so i short a typical board can have
you can not have 2 same type of levels of devices ie 2primary master, 2 primary slaves etc...
how do you set a device to be master or slave?
by using jumpers on the IDE devcice.
there are 3 options on using the jumpers
MA - master. if jumper is placed at this point the device will be a master device
CS - cable sellect. the BIOS sytem will decide weather the device will be master or slave based on its position on the IDE cable
SL - Slave. the device will be a slave.
all this applies regardless the device is on the primary or secondary port.
its advised that the hard disk with the operating system be a 'primary master' ie jumper should be on master and through the IDE cable it be connected on the primary(sometimes called IDE1) port.
do get intouch and write a review pliz.
to avoid complications and if you only have one harddisk, just use CS with the jumpers on ALL devices
