On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:11:07 -0600, Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >It sounds like your new drive was set to CS. It's not a good idea to > >mix CS with drives set to master or slave though; you might get lucky > >and have it work, or it might not work. (I doubt it would damage the > >disk, though). > > > Could it somehow confuse the machine so it would no longer recognize the > drives when they were installed correctly, or the secondary drive > removed? I dunno how: I'm just asking. I had not changed or even looked
It shouldn't be possible to "confuse" it, with only one hd in the system. > at the configuration in the BIOS until after the problem occurred, so I did > not consciously change it . . . I guess I'm just wondering out loud if > anything could have changed it for me . . . Perhaps a static zap scrambling a few bits in the CMOS memory? Unlikely. Some motherboards have a jumper to reset the CMOS, but it'd be hard to do that accidentally, and in any case shouldn't cause problems finding your hard disk. > I agree, both that it's "possible" but that it seems unlikely that all > three could have gotten zapped at the same time, unless somehow one got > zapped and when it was put into the machine as secondary it somehow zapped > the primary drive which until then was working? That does seem to fit the behavior, but it seems highly unlikely. I'm about out of ideas without being there to poke at it. The only thing I can think to say is that in the past sometimes when I've seen wierd unexpected hardware behavior it helped to step back, bring in an observer, and go through all the steps from scratch slowly. Sometimes the second set of eyes helps or even just explaining what you're doing is enough to make you recognize the problem. Also, you mentioned that it was a Dell system you were given for Christmas - do you have any access to Dell tech support? If so, why not put the orig drive back in and let them send a guy out to diagnose/fix it? wish I could have helped more! -bryon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
