[Gllug] [OT] Hardware problem

[Iain M Conochie]

Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> <snip>
>   

> The bad news is that, having bought a high spec Mobo (Asus P7H55-M Pro)
> for them, it seems unwilling to recognise their old 200G IDE (PATA)
> disk, though it will recognise the DVD drive on the same cable.
>   

Have you tried the disk on the cable by itself? Most new machines expect 
only one drive on the PATA cables, and also usually expect it to be a CD 
/ DVD ROM device. There may be BIOS features to turn off this annoyance 
but I have not reaaly found any

Good luck

Iain

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