I had never heard of Iwill MBs before until my friend brought me his that had a problem. It seems like some sort of IDE controller problem but I'm not so sure. It won't recognize his HD he's had in there for a couple years now. He also has a DVD drive and a CDRW that won't come up either. I put an old 1GB that I had in there and it auto-detected the drive but shows garbled characters for the drive name and I'm not able to partition it. I reboot after partitioning in FDisk and there are no partitions there on the next boot. A couple of the times I was in the standard settings in CMOS the screen would change to a random color (instead of blue bg/white text) and I couldn't see all the options until I arrowed down through them. I was wondering if anyone had experiences with Iwills that may have had similar problems and if this would concern the Onboard IDE controller or the BIOS.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance
BTW two sets of IDE cables and HDs have been tested fine in another machine but still have problems on this board.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance
BTW two sets of IDE cables and HDs have been tested fine in another machine but still have problems on this board.