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I have an ASUS p4S800 motherboard with a P4 2.8 chip and its been fine since I fitted it. Im running 2 hard drives on the primary IDE connection and my DVD Writer as a master on the Second IDE with my ZIP drive as a slave on it too.
the other day I got a new case, a jeantech butterfly V2 and swapped everything over exactly how it was. Now for some reason nothing is recognised on the secondary IDE connection. Ive had to put my DVD drive as the slave to my hard drive on IDE1 to get it working. What could the problem be? Surely it just cant be broken? Everything seems to be enabled in the BIOS and the IDE drive detection is AUTO so I dont know why it doesnt work.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Re-seat the ide cable. Make sure the cable is the right way round in all connectors. replace the cable.
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Ive changed the cable round Ive unplugged it, plugged it back in, tried a brand new cable, and still no joy. I even plugged the cable in that was plugged into IDE1 and running my hard drives, but they didnt get recognised at all.
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Use hard drives on seperate ide outlets.Maybe as richard59 says"Get a new IDE cable.
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It does sound like your second IDE controller has died. But just to be sure, connect your main drive to the second controller and see if it will boot. Leave the first controller slot empty. Most motherboards will boot with that configuration.
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Did you go to device manager and see if the second IDE is recognized in the IDE controllers? Maybe delete them all and let xp reinstall or maybe the mobo drivers need to be reinstalled.
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a) sometimes you have to enabe the ide slots *TWICE* in the bios on different screens.
b) if the connector on the mobo end of the ide cable is the type that has one hole banked off, and is connected round the wrong way, it will bend a pin on the mobo socket. If this has happened it must be carefully straightened.
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Ive had all my devices out and plugged them in again, and eventually it worked, and I was not aware of anything being done wrong, I guess it's just one of those things, cheers for your help guys!
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