IDE Failure

[LordBoreal51]

Hi, I have a DFI Lanparty UT 250gb board with and AMD64 @ 2 ghz and suddenly I cannot see any IDE devices. Only the floppy seems to work.
Please Help!

AMD Athlon 754
DFI Lanparty UT 250gb
Geforce MX 4000 128mb
Hitachi 160 hd

 

[RealBlackStuff]

Bad or loose IDE-cables come to mind, or a brown-out which upset your BIOS.
Check both.

 

[vnf4ultra]

By saying your cpu is "@ 2ghz" it makes me think you're overclocking. If so, do you have the pci/agp buses locked. If not they could be running out of spec.

 

[LordBoreal51]

I was not overclocked at the time of the failure. A week or so before I reverted back to me normal settings.

 

[LordBoreal51]

I replaced the cables and both flashed and reset my BIOS. None worked.

 

[RealBlackStuff]

Your previous overclocking probably damaged the mobo.
Start with a barebone system (1 stick RAM, video), check BIOS etc, then work your way up by adding 1 item at a time and booting/checking.
Disable RAID if any.
Check all capacitors on your mobo, if any have a rounded top, or are oozing liquid, you are definitely in trouble. Take this check seriously, you need to take the mobo out!