Brian,
Thanks. A toasted mobo is my working theory. I am hesitant to transfer the disks because they are RAIDs. I don't want to screw up the data if it is recoverable.
Further strangeness -- I can boot to a floppy and then access the CDROM. But I cannot get it to boot from the CD. The BIOS boot sequence seems to see the two RAIDs. The SATA RAID set up says the disks are okay. I have not been able to find a diagnostic for the IDE RAID.
Not the way I was planning on spending my friday/weekend/week.
Thanks for the input.
Jim Maki
-------------- Original message from Brian Weeden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: --------------
> On 4/29/05, Thane Sherrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > Could be that the boot files have been deleted. Boot with an XP CD and see
> > what files are on the drive.
>
> Kind of hard to do since he said he can't boot from a CD :)
>
> I have this sinking feeling that your motherboard may have taken a
> dump, probably the I/O controller. I would take the CD/DVD and hard
> drives and plug them into another computer to see if they work. If
> they do then you know it is your motherboard.
>
> --
> Brian
>
