PC will not detect any ATA[IDE] connections

[Seren1ty]

Hey,

I'm new to this place, and I really just need some help with this one issue. For some reason, an older AMD Athlon computer will -not- detect -any- ATA hard drives or CDROMs. I've tried reconfiguring everything, tried each drive individually, and I double checked to make sure all the jumpers were properly configured.

What's weird is, they were working -until- I restored my BIOS back to bare defaults by loading fail-safe and then optimized. I'm not sure of the name of the BIOS software used. But on optimized defaults, shouldn't IDE work without a hitch?

It has 256MB of RAM and standard ATA66 IDE connections. (Two channels + FDD).

I hope someone out there has had this same problem. Thanks in advance!!!1

-Seren1ty

 

[Tmagic650]

Revert back to "fail safe" default bios and see if the IDE detection returns

 

[tipstir]

Clear CMOS and remove the onboard battery. See if that flushes out the crap of data that might be causing the problem?

 

[Samstoned]

older bios may not detect lba drives
go to bios change auto to lba (if you can)
remove battery last restort

 

[Chimworth]

and check the settings in the bios to see if it is enabled... it just might be set for sata...