EIDE connector port problem 1175
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It works! It works! It works!
That's exactly what I did. I don't think the CD drive is defective. When connected on EIDE2 both CD drives work fine. When on EIDE1 the 1st drive on the ribbon isn't recognized. Though...
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While in the 'BIOS Setup' I pressed F9 which loaded the default configuration. Somehow that did it. Upon booting the hard drive on the second position of EIDE1 was recognized just fine.
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I looked at the pins and the jumpers. They seemed OK. I tried jumpering the drives as Master-Slave and not Cable Select. Didn't work. I re-checked the IDE setting to make sure it was set to 'Both'. It was. I even changed the IDE setting to 'Primary'. Same thing. Changed back to 'Both'. So now, I enter the 'BIOS Setup' and start trying "stupid" things. I toggled the 'QuickBoot' setting. I toggled the 'Quiet Boot' (Booting Diagnostics). I changed the parallel port to EPP-ECP-etc. I knew none of that would change things but I was just trying. The point here is that after every change I had to press F10 to save the changes and then Enter to confirm before exiting and rebooting. Then one time by mistake instead of F10 I pressed F9 which loads the default configuration. Up came the confirmation box. Then I saw something like 'Load default config?' and realized I hadn't press F10. At this point I said 'What the heck" and pressed Enter. Upon booting the drive that wasn't recognized before, got recognized just fine.
Now, every peripheral is recognized but I don't know what setting change did it! Any ideas?
Thanks to everybody for their help. I appreciated it a lot. Thanks for the help gg.
Thanks Jim