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One IDE Channel has gone out of order

Oct 14, 2004 9:07PM PDT

Dear Friends,
One IDE Channel of the mother board of my PC is not working though the other is okay. Already I have one hard disk and one CD Rom and if I like to add to my PC one more hard disk and one CD writer, what should I do ? Kindly suggest any solution. Thanking you
Yours sincerely
Indrajit Lahiri

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Re: One IDE Channel has gone out of order
Oct 14, 2004 10:24PM PDT

If you know for a "fact" the IDE channel is gone or not trustworthy, get an IDE card to replace the done-in IDE channel(s). You're just not going to get things working unless some s/w is at fault, thus if h/w problem, the above apples or install another mtrbd.. You should also consider a larger power supply as if and when you get to add the other devices, they'll need *stable* power. Because for however reason tthe IDE ch. was hosed it maybe abbriuted to a power issue. You didn't mention how old your system was but if older than 2yrs., about that time a "capacitor" problem was becoming common, check for bulging, blown, or leaky caps on mtrbd..

good luck -----Willy Happy

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Re: One IDE Channel has gone out of order
Oct 14, 2004 10:48PM PDT

What is going wrong with the IDE channel that tells you it has gone out? Have you jumpered the drives correctly that you are putting on it. Most new systems use CS for both devices on a cable, older ones use Maser/Slave for the devices.

What system are you using, how old is it, what version of Windows. What do you see when you try and use the non working IDE?

If you have USB 2 you can put a CD write on that if you need more than 4 devices and you can get both internal IDE channels working. You can also get an external USB2 hard drive.

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Re: One IDE Channel has gone out of order
Oct 15, 2004 11:26AM PDT

Dear JMarchi,
Through this mail I convey my thanks to you and all who have responded to my query. I should have been more elaborate in describing my problem. In my PC I have both WIN 98 (SE) and WIN XP (Home) operating system (dual boot). Originally the hard disk was attached to the primary IDE channel and CD-ROM to the secondary IDE channel. One day I found that the bios was not recognizing the hard drive. Naturally I thought that probably the hard drive was gone or the SMPS could not supply the power properly or the IDE data cable was not functioning. I checked the voltage, it was okay. Since the bios could detect the CD-ROM, I thought to attach the hard disk to the secondary IDE channel and at once my PC started working. Now I have attached both the hard disk and CD-ROM to the secondary IDE channel as master and slave respectively. Those are functioning properly. This is why I suspect that the primary IDE channel of the motherboard has gone out of order. My PC is two and half year old. By the way, I should mention that I set the IDE component detection as AUTO in BIOS. Is the IDE controller card the only solution? Please suggest. Thanking you
Yours sincerely
Indrajit Lahiri

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What operating system???
Oct 15, 2004 8:44AM PDT

This can happen in 95 and 98, not sure about XP..

Need to go into device manager and enable both drives if not enabled, then remove the no ide from the registry.

Did it ever work??? If not this could be the problem. If so I can get specific step by step instructions. Actually I'll ask Toni H, a Moderator to give them to you.

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As Ray mentioned
Oct 15, 2004 9:39AM PDT

If you have W95/98 or ME, go to Device Mgr, right click the PARENT IDE controller (the one above the Primary/Secondary IDE controllers), choose Properties and change the 'default' listing using the down arrow key to say 'enable BOTH Primary and Secondary'. Close Device Mgr.

Now go to Start/RUN, type REGEDIT and click Edit at the top, click FIND, and type in NOIDE and click Find Now. If an entry for this shows up on the right hand side, right click it and choose DELETE.

Go back to Edit/Find, type BADIDE, click Find Now....and if that entry shows up, right click it, and choose DELETE.

Now close the Registry, and reboot the computer to see if Device Mgr now shows both IDE controllers without any exclamation marks or red 'no access' markings.

TONI