hard drive installation problem

Hi folks,

Would it be OK in this forum to ask hardware question? If so I have a problem configuring my computer hard drive. I am having difficulty with BIOS setup-sort of.

I have an old non brand name Pentium 933 computer with Asus CUSL2-C jumper free pc133 AGP 4X Motherboard, and Intel 815EP Chipset and i think 300+ RAM with floppy drive, 2 CD ROM (DVD ROM and writer) and 2 hard drives.

Please be patient and read

Here is what happened.
I had a 40 GB hard drive when i bought my first computer about 5 years ago. After using it for 4 years, the hard drive started to make noises and i took it back where i bought it and the guy charged me 70 bucks to install a new 80GB hard drive last years. It was working fine until last week. i wanted to install my old hard drive back as a secondary hard drive as i have some valuable files in the old hard drive. I did not touch anything, just installed my old hard drive back beside the new one. but I forgot to plug the power cable for floppy drive. When i turned it on, it was unable to identify my floppy but when i clicked F4 as the screen suggested, it would bypass floppy drive, and it would start the computer. Then i was able to see both my old and new hard drive when i clicked my computer icon. Then i was able to access my all of file with my old hard drive and i was so proud of myself for a little while, but my proud moment was short lived when i attempted to plug the floppy drive in. I opened my computer, did not touch anything but plugged the power for floppy drive and closed it. All of a sudden, it would not find any of the hard drives and the 2 DVD ROM and DVD writers. and kept looking for the floppy drive and asking me to put floppy disk-such as system disk or something like that. I did put the system disk, managed to start the window but still would not able to pick up the drives, still unable to find the 2 hard drives. I tried to play around with BIOS by switching to auto, then to CD ROM, then individual chosen hard drive etc, with out success. Then i opened the computer again switched the jumpers around the hard drive and the 2 CD ROM i have. for instance, i put my DVD writer as master and DVD ROM as slave and my new hard drive as master and my old hard drive as slave and vise versa for both CD ROM and hard drives. i spent almost 3 days to figure it out without success. finally i gave up and tried to take it back to my computer guy where i bought the computer from in the first place, just to find out the guy closed his business for good. Now I am stuck-Please help.

Now the worst thing is, even when i put system start up floppy disk, i am unable to load the computer on at all. When starting the computer i tried to hit esc button, and from F1 to F10 buttons turn by turn access safe mode but all of my efforts were in vain.

I have window xp and window 2000 option to start my computer if i can manage to start .

Please help and i am so sorry, it is like a book. i tried to shorten my question but wanted to give u guys the full picture of what happened.

Hi folks,

I have a problem configuring my computer hard drive. I am having difficulty with BIOS setup-sort of.

I have an old non brand name Pentium 933 computer with Asus CUSL2-C jumper free pc133 AGP 4X Motherboard, and Intel 815EPChipset and i think 300+ RAM with floppy drive, 2 CD ROM (DVD ROM and writer) and 2 hard drives.

My system has 2 hard-drives, 1 SONY CD writer, 1 DVD ROM, and 1 floppy drive. Could some one please tell me where to put the jumpers sequentially on each above 4 items identified, so it would detect all of the hard drive and CD ROM? I switched them around and my computer failed to detect any of the drives. Now the worst thing is, even when i put system start up floppy disk, i am unable to load the computer on at all. When starting the computer i tried to hit Esc button, and from F1 to F10 buttons turn by turn in-order to access my computer in a safe mode but all of my efforts were in vain.

I have window xp and window 2000 option to start my computer if i can manage to start .

Please help.

cLuLLess one.

This is just an example. Individual hard drives might be different from this diagram. You should check the manufacturer of the drives you are using.