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#163287 - 30/05/2003 22:39 Re: My new motherboard is dead? [Re: Laura]
tonyc
carpal tunnel

Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
Did you try one drive on the primary as a slave and the other on the secondary? Might work that way even if it is a longshot.
Not just a long shot, but a long reach. The two CD drives are high on the case, the HD's are low. Splitting a single chain between the two just won't reach with the cables I have.

Might try to swap in a 40 connector cable soon "just for kicks."
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#163288 - 31/05/2003 05:56 Re: My new motherboard is dead? [Re: tonyc]
mlord
carpal tunnel

Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14496
Loc: Canada
The symptoms are weird. As the BIOS bootup messages scroll by with the listing of the IDE drives, the CD-RW drive shows up with a goofy garbled text string
I had a similar problem recently, with all jumpers/combinations failing equally. So I tossed the ATA100 cable and replaced it with a new one from my bin'o'cables. Works fine now.

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