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  1. 02-12-2003, 08:28 AM #1
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    You ever blow out both IDE channels?

    I can't get the BIOS to recognize CD ROM or HDD, tried multiple drives. FDISK says 'no fixed disk present'. It's an older PC, but this is strange.

    I was in FDISK, deleted the primary partition, created a new partition, rebooted, and WHAMMO.
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  2. 02-12-2003, 08:47 AM #2
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    Weird, how are your bios settings?

    auto detect working?
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  3. 02-12-2003, 08:51 AM #3
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    Auto detect worked before the fiasco... I manually configure the drive and on reboot it goes back to 'NONE'.
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    how old is the motherboard?

    maybe one of the caps dried out.. is the bios battery ok?
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  6. 02-12-2003, 08:57 AM #5
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    The PC was purchased in 98. The BIOS is keeping the date and time..
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  7. 02-12-2003, 09:02 AM #6
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    does the HDD work in another rig?

    did you try clearing the CMOS?

    How about the FDD controller does it still work?

    and maybe a bios update?
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  8. 02-12-2003, 09:39 AM #7
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    Originally posted by Wurm
    does the HDD work in another rig?

    did you try clearing the CMOS?

    How about the FDD controller does it still work?

    and maybe a bios update?
    Yes, tried several HDD's anyway.

    Yes, no go.

    Yes it works fine.

    Not worth it..
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  9. 02-12-2003, 10:04 AM #8
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    I think the motherboard finally gets to meet mr. Sledgehammer.
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    Thumbs up

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    can you melt a mobo? or maybe boil it?
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    I've seen this a couple times, one of them only having one channel stop working, the other, both. In one case it was a P166 that was 3-4 years old. The was a 2-3 year old AMD based system. In both situations I ended up replacing the mobo.
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    yeah i read an article like a week back that talked about how capacitator manufactuerers were going afdter counterfeiters using a bad forumla for the mixture and shoddy craftsmanship that leaked out the goo. maybe u got a bad mobo, but since urs lasted almost 5 years, i dunno, maybe it did jst break down. everything eventually does.
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  15. 02-12-2003, 10:46 PM #13
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    looks like Entropy finally got ya Boogs
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  16. 02-12-2003, 11:26 PM #14
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    I had a similar experience with my mobo not recognizing an Acer cdrw that I replaced my dvd drive with. I thought that my ide channel was busted, tried pnp in the bios, no cd-rom recognized. Then I remembered reading somewhere that I needed to upgrade my firmware to a later version. Try that. I've since taken out the cdrw and put the dvd-rom back in. Computer recognises it no problem. Must be outdated firmware or something. For the hdd, try a floppy drive utility.
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