>
> Wife ran me off 20 years ago
> This is a new motherboard IDE 0 seems to be the problem new cables as soon
> as Fry's opens
>
> > Lanman
I had that same problem with a ECS, Elite Group MOBO that I am using now. I
Tried switching cables but that did not help a bit. After resetting the BIOS
several times and switching cables several times I finnially found that IDE 0
would not detect a HDD but would detect a CD or DVD just fine. IDE 1 was able
to detect any drive that I put on it. Solution I just ended up using IDE 1
for the HDD and everything worked fine. About 6 months ago I had to replace
the CD burner and while I( had the box open I thought that I would get to the
bottom of the problem once in for all. Again after replaceing cables ,
changing jumpers on the HDD changing drive positions from the end of the
cable to the center of the cable and anything else that I could think of I
still had the same results IDE 0 WILL NOT detect a HDD but detects any CD or
DVD just fine. I even tried switching brands of hard drives. I am still
running the machine with the HDD on IDE 1 instead of IDE0 and all is still
working fine. I can't understand how this is possible but never the less that
is what is happening.
This may or may not apply to the MOBO that you are using but it is worth a
try.
Marc
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