Bobbie, Confused? Is it the DVD drives OR the Hard Drives you can not view/see in BIOS? Like FORC5's idea of the 'sniff test' of the HD's. One or the other could be toast. Certainly, test all the hdw in a known working machine to be sure. Best, Duncan
On 04/05/2011 21:52, Bobby Heid wrote:
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
