I can understand that one Hard drive won't even make a sound, but two?
I installed both HD and none of them boot. I've slave them and Nothing!!!
Why won't my machine reconize them?  Are they DEAD? Try the HDD's on another machine...
Try a CD drive on your machine...
By process of elimination you should discover the cause.Nothing happens.  The machine is working well, SINCE I did install a working HD and it boots and runs.  The other two, won't be reconized thru slave or usb. Are you using the auto-detect feature in the BIOS ? ?
Does the BIOS see them at all ?
Where are these drives from and did they ever work ?

More info...Both were working. One of them was detected and I put it aside for when I had time to retrieve the infor.  Then later I had the other one in the tower working and it was striked with a SVC.host.exe.  I tryed the R with license, then later the MOTHER board did not reconize any of them.  ARE THEY DEAD? No
A virus cannot cripple hardware.
yes it can, granted it's NEARLY impossible but it could screw with the firmware gone, ALSO there's a virus that came out not too long ago that can screw with the bios of the motherboard and short of actually getting a new bios chip you're screwed.

Not sure if you tried changing the jumpers but that's worth a shot Quote from: ghaldos on May 23, 2009, 01:49:48 AM

yes it can, granted it's nearly impossible but it could screw with the firmware gone, also there's a virus that came out not too long ago that can screw with the bios of the motherboard and short of actually getting a new bios chip you're screwed.

Not sure if you tried changing the jumpers but that's worth a shot

yes it can, granted it's nearly impossible but it could screw with the firmware gone, also there's a virus that came out not too long ago that can screw with the bios of the motherboard and short of actually getting a new bios chip you're screwed.

Not sure if you tried changing the jumpers but that's worth a shot