How to tell if your IDE1 controller is bad?

[mrlayance]

I am having a problem with my motherboard. I started up today, got a primary disk fail message. So I put a new drive in, same message? For both drivers, the name was all messed up? 30 characters long with alot of $ signs? I have a MSI K7T limited edition.

Thanks
Lance

 

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How to tell if your IDE1 controller is bad?

Move to 2 and try betting on the cable though

 

[mrlayance]

yup
That was it.... Stupid cable. I hope I still have a receipt. Its a really long round IDE cable.

Thanks for the idea