Hi Duncan, I'm sorry for the confusion, it is the DVD drives that can be seen in the bios but not in Windows. I no longer have any systems that handle PATA. Although I might could test it on one of those SATA/PATA to USB adapters. Thanks for the idea.
Bobby -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 5:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] Possible bad PATA controller 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 > >
