K7S5A Pro, is my ATA controller broken ?

[Tod]

(K7S5A PRO)
When I boot my computer, the DVD and burner on the secondary ATA controller
are not even
seen by the bios (everything set for auto).
And the HD led on the front of the case is staying on, like the hard drive
is always being accessed.
Tried doing optimal settings in bios, no luck.
Is my motherboard's ATA controller broken ?

 

[Rod Speed]

(K7S5A PRO)
When I boot my computer, the DVD and burner on the secondary
ATA controller are not even seen by the bios (everything set for auto).

And the HD led on the front of the case is staying
on, like the hard drive is always being accessed.

Thats not that unusual when the system isnt
able to detect the drives properly at boot time.

Tried doing optimal settings in bios, no luck.
Is my motherboard's ATA controller broken ?

Thats just one of the possibilitys.

Try each drive by itself on the cable. Some
failures of drives can produce that effect.

Try another cable, maybe swapping with the other one.

I have even see that effect with an intermittent short
to case, running the motherboard outside the case,
loose on the desktop made that symptom go away.

Is there any indication that the electrolytics on
the motherboard have failed ? These are the
usually blue or black short posts sticking up
from the motherboard surface. Are any of
them bludging or have any visibly leaked ?

 

[Rolf Blom]

(K7S5A PRO)
When I boot my computer, the DVD and burner on the secondary ATA controller
are not even
seen by the bios (everything set for auto).
And the HD led on the front of the case is staying on, like the hard drive
is always being accessed.
Tried doing optimal settings in bios, no luck.
Is my motherboard's ATA controller broken ?

Did it work before, or is it a new system?

Check that IDE cables are seated correctly.
Also check one CD is jumpered as master, the other as slave
(unless you use CS settings & cables)

In BIOS, check that second IDE channel is enabled.
If you temporarily move a CD drive to 1st controller,
is it then seen in BIOS setup?

Don't know about the HD LED, maybe connector needs reversing?
(assuming this is a new & untried box)

There's also another newsgroup dedicated to your mainboard mfg:
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.elitegroup
maybe someone there has more ideas.

/Rolf

 

[Rod Speed]

Did it work before, or is it a new system?

Check that IDE cables are seated correctly.
Also check one CD is jumpered as master, the other as slave
(unless you use CS settings & cables)

In BIOS, check that second IDE channel is enabled.
If you temporarily move a CD drive to 1st controller,
is it then seen in BIOS setup?

Don't know about the HD LED, maybe connector needs reversing?
(assuming this is a new & untried box)

That would see the LED off all the time.

 

[Tod]

Did it work before, or is it a new system?

The system is several months old, built myself, everything has been running
perfectly.
I did about 36 hours ago, updated to the latest SIS drivers, AGP117.
could they have burned out the controllers ?

Check that IDE cables are seated correctly.
Also check one CD is jumpered as master, the other as slave
(unless you use CS settings & cables)

Burner is set as master, DVD as slave.
I did just notice that the burn tray will open, but not the DVDs

 

[Tod]

You are correct Rod, I had just noticed that the tray works on my burner,
but not on the DVD.
Unplugged the DVD (ATA and power) and now the HD and burner work normally.
The DVD was the cheapest 16X DVD I could find.