SATA Primary Drive 0 not found, primary drive 1 not found, no DVD found Dell
I believe the 8100 uses the older 70 watt power supply and the 8200 uses a 90 watt supply. The connector is almost exactly the same (the...
I don't have the BIOS for this system memorized, but virtually any BIOS on and IDE+SATA system is going to have an IDE configuration setting. Choices will look like:
Native-compatible mode on PATA-SATA Native-compatible mode on PATA only AHCI Configure SATA as standard IDE etc., etc.
Having these set wrong can make all (or just some) of the drives disappear. Note that if this is happening, the drives will not show in the BIOS. If they are listed there, than this is not the problem. If they are not listed, then I'd say there's a pretty good chance the first kid who "knew a lot . . ." went into the bios and screwed up these settings. Then when you used the "exact same" settings on the new MB, you copied over the same mistake.
FWIW, Moore's observations-projections dealt with integrated circuit complexity vs manufacturing cost. Think number of transistors per chip...
You can try different settings until drives start to show up. Reboot into the BIOS after each change and see if the drives are detected. If you go from no drives to one or two at some point, you know this is the problem and can keep working until they all show up. Note that after you get them all detected, you still may need to F6 and load "a third party RAID or SCSI driver" during the XP install.
Most common settings are: "configure SATA as standard IDE" *combined with* "Native mode on PATA+SATA"
-Mike