My computer worked fine when I left for work. When I came home it couldn't find either of my hard drives. I replaced the connecting cables with an old set from another computer and that did not work, so now I'm thinking that it might be the motherboard. Can anyone help me please?
Does your BIOS see them? What have you done to eliminate everything but the HDDs as being the problem?
No, the BIOS does not recognize them. One is a Dell 40 gig and the master is a 250 gig Sony. Like I said I changed the IDE cables, but other than that I am at a loss.
Dan, can't do that if bios does not see the drives at all. odell, it is a dell pc or what as that will determine what my next question once i see the answer?
No, it was custom built by an IT administrator. It has about a gig of RAM, and the motherboard has a chip on it that says MSI, AGP 8X. Also, all of the fans are working.
what make are the hard drives as in western digital, seagate, maxtor or what? is that ide cable wide or narrow? if narrow then is sata not ide.
The first is a Maxtor diamodmax plus 9 200GB ATA / 133 HDD. The second is a pos DELL. I dont know the exact make because it is covered in their barcodes. But it looks like it is a IDE 17 gig.
If the drives show up in the bio's, go to your "Boot Selection" of the bio's and make sure they are listed in the there, AND in the correct boot order"
then that port died as your hard drives show up on the other port but not the 1st port. now is decision time as what to do as you have 1 working ide port & at least 3 ide drives, 2 hd & at least 1 rom drive. how many rom drives & what are they as in cd rom, dvd rom, cd burner & dvd burner?
