Hi There,
I have bought a new WD Green Hard disk WD20EARX. Its 2 TB HardDisk. But my PC could not recognise it. Neither BIOS nor Windows 7 64 Bit. My Motherboard is Intel DG33FB. I have three other HardDisks on my PC i.e. WD 1 TB HDD, WD 320 GB, Hitachi 320 GB. They all are working fine.
I have read on your forums and FAQ that sometimes some motherboards does not support 6 GB/s Drives i.e ICH9 Baord. My Board has ICH9 Southbridge. So i hav tried adding Jumper to pin5-6 as per your guide but that does not work. Kindly suggest me what to do. I have even tried removing all my existing HDD’s but still not working. Kindly tell me howcan i use WDSpeed tool and where to find it. Any other suggestions are welcome.
I have seen the intel site and upgraded the bios to latest available firmware. but still same problem. I could not see any thing related to the support of this drive on my motherboard.
i have read that the speed of harddisk can be reduced to 3GB/s by putting jumper in pin no. 5-6, but that did not solve the problem.
I have also heard that speed of drive can be reduced by using wdspeed tool. I could not find that tool and how to use that tool.
My Caviar Green WD10EARS is doing this too. Western Digital is truly screwing something up. I hope that if you get a solution it works for my drive too.