[pchelpers] Re: PC Not Recogizing Drives.

George T. Cox wrote:
> I have my brother's PC that all of a sudden stopped recognizing the 
> drives. I changed the motherboard in it and got the same behavior. Is it 
> possible for parts of a power supply to go bad and not all of it? I was 
> wondering if it is possible that the power supply might be not sending 
> power to the drives' power connections. The fan comes on but even after 
> it has been running for a while it blows out cool air like it is not 
> getting hot inside there. What do you folks think about this situation? 
> Oh yes, I tried to solve the problem through the bios to no avail.
> 
> GTCox
It is, but that usually results in failure to power up. Failure to 
recognize drives is likely caused by:
a) Drive failure (including interface damage)
b) Dodgy cables...
c) Motherboard damage to IDE/SATA interfaces.

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