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On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > OK, I have just moved and taken my computer set-up plus about four other > boards I have aquired along the way. I set up the board that I was > using...nothing. I set up one of the other random boards and it posts but > doesn't load the OS so I try to hook a CD ROM up to the system and it kills > it....The same thing happens with another board with a different CD drive as > I thought it was the drive that killed it. > Adding a CD drive to an IDE cable shouldn't stop a Motherboard from > working, should it?...what's going wrong here? Ahh! I've turned into a > computer killer!!! You can get weird things happening if you plug in IDE cables the wrong way round - which, despite the identifying lugs and pins is still possible to do... Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html