I'm pretty knowledgeable about computers, and have built many systems. The one I'm on right now is modded out the ying yang with a ton of lights and fans that I don't really need, but damn if I'm not cool... 
Anyway, problem... just recently when I'd boot up, the system would beep twice and then wouldn't pick up my hard drives. I was thinking it was the round IDE cable I was using and maybe it burnt out/whatnot. So I swapped the other round IDE cable from my secondary... everything worked fine, no beeps, loads great. Well, after a couple hours I figure I might as well throw the (messed up) cable on the secondary just to see if it works. It did... ? So it wasn't the cable. Couple days later problem arises again... so this time I just swap the IDE slots (put the orignal first IDE channel into second, and vice versa) works fine... So today, it does it again, I try swapping back and nothing. I swap cables, nothing. So I throw in some old ribbon IDE cables in, and those work..... wtf? Any ideas anyone? The only thing I had done before it acted up was throw SP2 on, but I've since gotten rid of it cause I prefer to control what I can access on the net and don't feel I need Microsoft to hold my hand and protect me.
Specs:
AMD Athlon 1700+
Asus A7v266 MB
768 Mb RAM
Geforce Ti4400
Maxtor 60GB and WD 200GB hard drives (on primary IDE)
Plextor DVD-Burner and Creative DVD player (on secondary IDE)
Anything else ya need to know, post and I'll fill ya in.
Thanks for any help guys; this is getting on my last nerve.
Anyway, problem... just recently when I'd boot up, the system would beep twice and then wouldn't pick up my hard drives. I was thinking it was the round IDE cable I was using and maybe it burnt out/whatnot. So I swapped the other round IDE cable from my secondary... everything worked fine, no beeps, loads great. Well, after a couple hours I figure I might as well throw the (messed up) cable on the secondary just to see if it works. It did... ? So it wasn't the cable. Couple days later problem arises again... so this time I just swap the IDE slots (put the orignal first IDE channel into second, and vice versa) works fine... So today, it does it again, I try swapping back and nothing. I swap cables, nothing. So I throw in some old ribbon IDE cables in, and those work..... wtf? Any ideas anyone? The only thing I had done before it acted up was throw SP2 on, but I've since gotten rid of it cause I prefer to control what I can access on the net and don't feel I need Microsoft to hold my hand and protect me.
Specs:
AMD Athlon 1700+
Asus A7v266 MB
768 Mb RAM
Geforce Ti4400
Maxtor 60GB and WD 200GB hard drives (on primary IDE)
Plextor DVD-Burner and Creative DVD player (on secondary IDE)
Anything else ya need to know, post and I'll fill ya in.
Thanks for any help guys; this is getting on my last nerve.
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