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hosolof   06-04-2009 at 12:05:57 PM

Hey all
My computer has all-of-a-sudden stopped recognising the IDE drives plugged into it... My mobo is an ECS Elitegroup K8T800-A. The BIOS says there are no IDE drives present. I have a 320gb seagate HDD on chanel 0 and then a simple burner and cd player combo on chanel 1. Can anyone offer me any ideas?

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dokk2   06-04-2009 at 03:09:57 PM
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OK, then,you have checked that the drive[s] are properly and firmly plugged in and that the jumpers are properly set to either slave/master or cable select???
And you have tried another 80pin ribbon cable,because if the bios is not reporting in ,then the above is your problem,,or they have both died,,together,highly unlikely,but possible,power surge etc...:)

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hosolof   06-04-2009 at 11:17:09 PM
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Jumpers are fine... I had both of them working the other day. Turned the computer on one morning and no IDE drives at all. Theres a whole bunch of other computers in the house too that work perfectly so I don't think it was a power surge.

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wuzy   06-05-2009 at 12:00:32 AM
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Can you hear the drive spinning when powering up?
Place you hand or ear on it when you start the computer up. You should be able to feel/hear it spinning up.

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hosolof   06-05-2009 at 09:28:54 AM
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Yeah HDD spins on start up. It's not only that, the CD drives have stopped registering as well. Something wrong with the mobo perhaps?

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wuzy   06-05-2009 at 10:49:10 AM
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Since you described it as "all-of-a-sudden" and a VIA chipset based motherboard then it's not entirely impossible for the IDE channels to fail abruptly. I've had a similar case with an nForce2 motherboard doing exactly that (a long time ago) so it's possible.

So both IDE channels does not detect your optical drive either (test it out) is that correct?

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hosolof   06-05-2009 at 02:52:51 PM
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Yeah, I've tried plugging them into the different channels to no avail. I actually turned it on this morning and it said my hard drive was there (I only had the HDD plugged in at the time), it started to boot into windows and then just reset, no IDE devices again... Are you familiar with the ECS K8T800? I've got no idea if it's a good mobo, fairly old now too. Any ideas on how I could test it?
Thanks for your help btw...

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