Can't see drives

[rock]

Hi,

I have Asus mobo P4B533-E and it has been great for years. Now Bios
(Award 1014) suddenly doesn't see all my IDE drives.

I have XP Pro with 4 drives and a cdrom.

2 from Primary, 2 from secondary and 1 from n IDE controller. The CDrom
is the secondary slave.

When I disconnect all drives except the boot Pri Master it sees it and
the CDrom.

When I connect them all it now only sees the CD rom.

The same happens in XP

What could cause this as it has just stated.

Thanls

oz

 

[JS]

Check the BIOS settings.

Also replace the CMOS battery if this is
still the original battery.

 

[Malke]

Hi,

I have Asus mobo P4B533-E and it has been great for years. Now Bios
(Award 1014) suddenly doesn't see all my IDE drives.

I have XP Pro with 4 drives and a cdrom.

2 from Primary, 2 from secondary and 1 from n IDE controller. The CDrom
is the secondary slave.

When I disconnect all drives except the boot Pri Master it sees it and
the CDrom.

When I connect them all it now only sees the CD rom.

The same happens in XP

What could cause this as it has just stated.

This is a purely hardware issue and has nothing to do with XP. This is
commonly seen in older hardware and means that components are starting to
fail. I would start by swapping out your power supply for a known-working
one. Make sure it is powerful enough to handle all those drives. If that
doesn't solve the issue, your motherboard is probably failing.

Malke