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Paul Sutton writes: > Rob Beard wrote: >> Gordon Henderson wrote: >>> On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: <snip>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 Hi, Gordon, yes I have identified a cable that is faulty and was causing problems. It took a lot of trial and error and time...Plus, like you said I think I might have been pluging the lugless one in the wrong way around... >> Yup, I have a couple of IDE cables kicking around that are missing lugs >> and it's so easy to get them the wrong way around. I'd suggest try >> disconnecting everything (drives, cables, extra cards etc) and plug in >> the bare minimum (CPU, memory, power, video) and see if that works. You >> could also try resetting the CMOS, sometimes that can help. > One side of the ide lead is red, this sometimes goes on the connector so > the red end is nearest to the power connector, doesn't apply in all > situations but can be helpful > Paul >> It kind of reminds me when I worked at eBuyer. They had a load of >> boards sent back by customers which were supposedly not working. Turned >> out they had the CMOS jumpers set to clear. >> At least you haven't done the silly thing I did once, plugging a SCSI >> hard drive into an IDE cable my mistake. Let's just say the puff of >> smoke coming out the drive was not a good sign. >> Rob > Paul Sutton > www.zleap.net > Support Open and ISO standard file formats ISO 26300 odf > http://www.odfalliance.org > Next Linux User Group meet : March 7th : 3pm, Shoreline Cafe Paignton CMOS jumper set to clear?...ok will check for this aswell. Cheers, Jon -- 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