Thanks Greg. Bobby
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Sevart Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 9:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] Possible bad PATA controller Lightning can have very unpredictable and bizarre failure modes. I had a NIC hit once that continued to function, could receive data at full wire rate, but would only transmit at around 500KB/s. I had a dual socket motherboard hit once that inexplicably was saturated with interrupt requests, consuming about 70% of all processor time. So yes, it's possible. :) > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid > Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 8:53 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [H] Possible bad PATA controller > > 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
