I'm a big case modding guy, and I decided I'd strip down an old Mac case and shoehorn the PC in there, PSU and all. I of course had to disassemble it and reassemble it, and it's now put together more securely than before, using all of the same parts. However, the BIOS seems to have reset itself - the clock's reset, it gives me odd messages at startup informing me that it restarted due to my overclocking (you can't even overclock on this board!) and worse yet, it will not find any IDE devices on either channel. I didn't touch the jumpers on my hard disk or CD-ROM drive and put them back the same way, so why won't it find them? It won't find any other hard drive either, so it's not the drives. Both channels are enabled, all jumpers are set correctly and everything's plugged in nice and tight. I'm on a 500MHz Pentium 3 with no music until I get this resolved - please help! Celeron Eater

I'm not familiar with that board but there's usually always a way to overclock a cpu. The clock resetting could be a battery thing. I've noticed that when I move a motherboard to a new case sometimes the cmos gets reset. Probably due to the charged cmos curcuitry getting shorted while I'm moving the board. But once you correct the settings it should stay that way. Make sure the FSB and multiplier settings for the cpu are correct. I can't imagine why or how you put a PC board in a mac case. The mounting studs are going to be all wrong and I wonder if maybe that is causing a problem with possible shorting. Or you may have damaged the board while trying to make it fit in the alien case. You may want to remove the motherboard from the case and set it on a flat insulated table and see if it'll find the drives when you start it up.

Yes, I agreed also, should be shorted somewhere, maybe you did not put the red colour spacers at the mounting point ? If you do not have the spacers just use a normal electrical insulation tape.

Why, because I could. How, it's on a removable motherboard plate from a ATX PC, cut slightly to fit. The FSB settings aren't the problem - I've gotten that message before, it's never meant anything and I included it as further information. It might be touching the case on the back, though. I had it touching before, but that was on plastic (better not to ask) which doesn't conduct electricity well of course. See...I thought I'd thought of everything. Guess I hadn't-I'll keep this updated. Thanks. Celeron Eater

And no, it's being even worse now that it's off the metal board. It won't get past the Biostar logo at startup, where it would before about half the time. (sigh) I was hoping not to need a new mainboard yet... Celeron Eater

For the record, it can find the drives - it's making its head reading clicks. It won't boot up past the screen stated above though... Celeron Eater

If you're sure the drives are connected and jumpered properly and identified right in cmos then it must be the motherboard or a physical problem with the drives. You may want to try them separately and on different channels.