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qbandit
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Problem with a WDC 3200 AVBS

May 13th, 2008, 0:49

A friend gives me a HDD Western Digital WD3200AVBS, that he takes from a DVR, but I can't make it work on my PC, previously he had gave me similar HDDs but WD1600AVBS and works great. I test it on other PCs and nothing happens. He has other similar HDDs and have the same problem, anyone could give me any ideas.

thanks in advance.
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Re: Problem with a WDC 3200 AVBS

May 13th, 2008, 1:53

What specifically doesn't work? Is it recognized in the BIOS?
qbandit
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Re: Problem with a WDC 3200 AVBS

May 25th, 2008, 1:06

Sorry, I lost my internet connection for days.
And sorry for give no further explanation:
The BIOS doesn't recognize them.
Besides, the space where must appear the HD description in the IDE and SATA boot recognaince, is empty. Tested in several Mother-boards, even some who support SATA2.
In mother-board with SATA1 support only, I test them jumpered (even this particulary model doesn't specifies jumpering for SATA1, I use the jumper settings from the WD3200JS Caviar that doesn't work neither) and tested unjumpered... this could be a firmware o actually a hardware limitation? this HD came with some DVR.


rchadwick wrote: Post subject: Re: Problem with a WDC 3200 AVBS 



What specifically doesn't work? Is it recognized in the BIOS?

What specifically doesn't work? Is it recognized in the BIOS?


Posted: May 13th, 2008, 1:53
brianmd
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Re: Problem with a WDC 3200 AVBS

September 18th, 2009, 0:27

I too am having the same problem with Western Digital WD3200 AVBS 320 GB drive.
If I put it in my PC BIOS doesn't see it..and it never spins up. I've tried new cables different PC's etc. and the drive never spins up. If I put it back in the DirecTv box it spins up and works fine.
Any help with this would be great!
qbandit
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Re: Problem with a WDC 3200 AVBS

October 6th, 2009, 4:05

A friend find the solution for this in topics of this forum referred to Television
The solution is applying a patch named turn_off_poweron_in_standby.iso or something similar, founded in sourceforge.net, look further, it works, we make this to 4 HDs severals months ago and they are working great.

You must burn this iso on a cd, boot with only that HD connected, follow instructions, reset PC (not turn off) and everything is solved, eventhogh you must find the post that I mention previously and read it carefully.

good luck
qbandit
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Re: Problem with a WDC 3200 AVBS

October 6th, 2009, 4:13

Here it is the forum topic: how-flash-firmware-for-wd3200js-hard-drive-t9666.html?hilit=turn_off_poweron_in_standby

here is the file download link from sourceforge.net

http://sourceforge.net/projects/hdparm/ ... o/download
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