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Pavilion DV4 not recognize HD.

post #1 of 11
8/8/11 at 7:04pm
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Hello!!
It is a pleasure to participate in this forum that helped me a lot because almost all the doubts that had already been very well answered!

I have a very strange problem.
I bought an HP Pavilion 1220us completely disassembled for $ 70.00.
Once assembled i found two problems that is kind of a stripe that appears at the bottom of the LCD and HD with badblocks.
The LCD does not hurt so I went to HD and bought a Samsung HM500JI
That's where the problem.
The BIOS does not dedecta HD, I tested in the PC and the Compaq C500, okay formatting and installing windows without any problems.

Interestingly, the 1220us works perfectly with the C500 HD is a Seagate Momentus 5400.3
And then, what do you think is happening?

Thank you all for your help!!!

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post #2 of 11
8/8/11 at 7:24pm
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Originally Posted by bccpucallpa View Post

Hello!!
It is a pleasure to participate in this forum that helped me a lot because almost all the doubts that had already been very well answered!

I have a very strange problem.
I bought an HP Pavilion 1220us completely disassembled for $ 70.00.
Once assembled i found two problems that is kind of a stripe that appears at the bottom of the LCD and HD with badblocks.
The LCD does not hurt so I went to HD and bought a Samsung HM500JI
That's where the problem.
The BIOS does not dedecta HD, I tested in the PC and the Compaq C500, okay formatting and installing windows without any problems.

Interestingly, the 1220us works perfectly with the C500 HD is a Seagate Momentus 5400.3
And then, what do you think is happening?

Thank you all for your help!!!


Is Advanced Hardware Control Interface (under SATA mode) enabled in the BIOS? If so, try changing the setting to Compatible or Legacy and see if it recognizes the drive after that.
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post #3 of 11
8/8/11 at 8:36pm
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Hello Djembe !!!

The BIOS of this notebook is so simple that I recorded a video. Believed only after seeing, I never thought it existed BIOS.

 

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post #4 of 11
8/9/11 at 9:18am
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Sorry, forgot to warn you that the BIOS has found in its latest version!

Abços !!!

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post #5 of 11
8/10/11 at 8:43pm
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I updated everything that is possible with this notebook, even things that have nothing to do with the audio and so far nothing from him recognize the hd samsung, strange.

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post #6 of 11
8/11/11 at 5:26am
I'd move on to a different hard drive at this point.
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post #7 of 11
8/19/11 at 8:09am
Yeah, I'd have to agree with Steve. If after looking through everything in BIOS, the hard drive still isn't detected, it's probably faulty. That happens every once in a while. I'd see if you can exchange the hard drive for a new one.
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post #8 of 11
8/20/11 at 3:24pm
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Hello everybody!
Thank you for all the help but the BSOD is introducing notebook in which I believe is the video card, it overheated.
I think I'll sell the pieces.

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post #9 of 11
9/9/11 at 8:12pm
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In a last attempt I decided to check the thermal paste and I was lucky, the original folder was dry, now is working perfectly.

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post #10 of 11
9/10/11 at 2:17am
Very nice - a $70 investment for a working notebook and a good learning experience - can't beat that headbang.gif

cheers ...
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post #11 of 11
9/10/11 at 5:55am
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It's really nice to see it working but still have not tested other HD's
I think about buying an SSD because it does not work, I use the desktop!

Again, thank you very much this forum is really great!

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