-=PCTechTalk=- Re: No drives detected

Jo Ann,
    Chances are the cables have become loose over time and the air you 
blasted them with moved them enough to dislodge.  Assuming you're using PATA 
hard drives (with rather wide ribbon cables connecting them to the 
mainboard) go back inside the case (turn it off and unplug it first), gently 
remove (grab & rock the plastic end from side to side away from the socket 
as opposed to the wires) and then carefully reseat each end (the ends of the 
cables have nearly 40 pins that must line up exactly with the holes in the 
mainboard's sockets) of each IDE cable both from the mainboard and from the 
drive or drives that are not showing themselves to the BIOS.  If you have 
one hard drive, you'll do this for one cable (2 reseats).  Two drives will 
bring it up to 3 or 4 reseats.

    Hopefully the problem is just a bad connection and this will restore 
order to the world.         ;O)

Peace,
GMan

"The only dumb questions are the ones that are never asked!"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jo Ann Weaver" <bookworm54@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 10:19 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- No drives detected


> What can you do with a computer that doesn't detect any drives. Went into
> the bios, it is set to auto detect, checked and changed cables. It does 
> see
> the floppy drive. Tried booting with a 98 boot disk, but it said no drives
> too. Was working till I used compressed air to clean it out.
>
> Jo Ann 

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