On Friday 18 June 2004 07:39 am, Marc wrote: > > 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. Thanks for all the help New volcano in bag new cd drive (for testing purposes and a whole bag of cables (Turning myself loose in Fry's with a credit card is a Baaad idea ;-D > > Marc > KM5KW
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