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Name: MS
Date: 2/14/2001 1:07:12 PM (GMT-7)
IP Address: 192.12.230.85
In Reply to: Re: Brand new KT7 wont recognize any hardrives? Help!!! posted by mike
Message:

first of all, pull the pineapple out of your behind, you are the one to come here for help and there is no point in being snappy or derogatory towards those trying to help you.

There are numerous possibilities why your board may not see the drives, starting with a wrong connection of your floppy that can result in some short to the fan connectors and the power supply unit that could be bad. Other possible sources are that you connected the IDE LED the wrong way or hooked up a wrong connector to the IDE LED header. I know that you stated in the original string that you have everything right but I don't care about that.

Now, here are a few questions and suggestions:
-Do the drives spin up at all?
What happens with a single drive?
-Did you remove the brass standoffs that could be in the way of the IDE connector traces and short out something from under the board?
-Does the IDE LED come up at all when you power on the system?
-did you connect the blue connector of the IDE cable to the board (if you switch the orientation, it won't work).

Suggestions:
-Disconnect the floppy drive including power as well as the CDROM and connect a single drive to the connector specified as Master on the cable.
-Make sure that the drive itself is set to master via jumper.
-switch the power cable used for the drive
-disconnect all case front panel connectors except for the Power-On

-If the drive spins up and is still not ID'd by the BIOS, there is a chance that the drive parameters are set incorrectly with the jumpers on the back of the drive.
-If the drive doesn't spin up, the power is bad, which could be the drive or the cable.

You are not the first person I hear with this particular problem on the KT7 though but I haven't paid attention to what the possible solution has been in other cases.

Anyway your problems have nothing to do with Intel or AMD, but I don't think it would be a great loss for AMD to lose you as customer

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