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Help! Motherboard not detecting HD's

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007bond

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Well my friend and I are upgrading an old celeron box to use as an MP3 server. We had to get a new power supply and that does work. But the motherboard will not detect either of the hard disks nor the CDROM. The BIOS settings are set to AUTO but that doesn't seem to help. The floppy is detected. We've tried just putting one hard disk in as the only one but it still did not detect it. The older drive is only 1 GB and has previously worked fine and is formatted. The new one is a 20GB Western Digital. We have changed the jumper settings appopriately I believe.

Originally, another old hard disk died along with the power supply. My friend took it to a computer shop and diagnosed those 2 problems.

Integrated video, other ports, work fine as far as I know.

Any Ideas? The motherboard is DFI CW35-S Rev B2 I believe.
Bad cables? Bad motherboard? Or maybe we are just doing something stupid?
 
it's possible the ide controller fried, have you tried those hdd's in another system w/ the same cables? if they work in a different system, likely the mobo is a goner.
 
Here's what to try:

1. Remove all jumpers from the WD20G drive.
2. Connect it as the only drive on the primary channel.

See if it detects it.
 
Thanks to all! Turns out the old 1 GB drive must be shot cause it was screwing things up. Problem solved for now.
 
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