smell the hd pcb they could be bad. Need to be evaluated on another system b4 you say RIP to the MB.
fp At 06:52 PM 4/5/2011, Bobby Heid Poked the stick with: >Hi all, > > > >My neighbor asked me to look at his pc because it was apparently dead. We >had a bad storm last night and my first thought was a dead PS. Sure enough, >there was no response from fans or anything when turned on. We went and >bought a new PS and the system came up. > > > >This is an older Dell desktop with two SATA, one PATA, and one floppy port. >He has two smallish HDs on the SATA ports and a DVD-ROM and a DVD burner on >the one PATA port. I can see the two DVD drives in the bios, but disk >manager (XP) nor windows explorer can see the drive, The drives have power >(they open and close). I reseated the cables in case I jostled them while >putting in the new PS. > > > >My question to you all is do you think that something got messed up (surge) >on the MB that is preventing the PATA port from working? If not, what else >could it be? > > > >I suggested that if we could not get the DVDs working, we could consolidate >his HDs, remove the extra one, and put a new SATA DVD drive on the now free >SATA port. > > > >Thanks, > >Bobby > > >__________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature >database 6017 (20110405) __________ > >The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > >http://www.eset.com -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
