Good evening, David,
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, David wrote:
I have a HP Pavilion 503n and all of the sudden the secondary ide channel
stopped working. This puts me in a dilema because I was getting ready to do
a fresh install of all of my operating systems. If anyone has any idea of
what the problem could be let me know. I tried swaping the primary and
secondary cables on the MB and the Optical drives worked fine and the
harddrives were not detected. If you have any insight would be much
appreciated. I am really not into the hardware side of a computer. I
upgrade and that is it. None of this diagnostic stuff. LOL
It sounds like you've done the basic troubleshooting - that's
great. You might try exchanging IDE cables if you haven't already.
If it's under warranty, see if HP will help you diagnose it over
the phone. If not, disconnect your devices from the motherboard and buy a
PCI secondary IDE card at a computer store. It'll be less than $40 and
will give you support for 4 fast devices, for a total of 6 usable with
your existing primary IDE.
Cheers,
- Bill
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