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Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > >> OK, I have just moved and taken my computer set-up plus about four other >> boards I have aquired along the way. I set up the board that I was >> using...nothing. I set up one of the other random boards and it posts but >> doesn't load the OS so I try to hook a CD ROM up to the system and it kills >> it....The same thing happens with another board with a different CD drive as >> I thought it was the drive that killed it. >> Adding a CD drive to an IDE cable shouldn't stop a Motherboard from >> working, should it?...what's going wrong here? Ahh! I've turned into a >> computer killer!!! >> > > You can get weird things happening if you plug in IDE cables the wrong way > round - which, despite the identifying lugs and pins is still possible to > do... > > Gordon > > IIRC ASUS boards had a habit of non conformance with regard to IDE cables and there fitment, failing the IDE cable being the wrong way round I would swap out the PSU for a new one or one known to be good - I've had to reflash several Gigabyte boards because the BIOS has been canned by dodgy PSU - Get yourself a UPS with line conditioning built in - I had one customer who went thru 4 motherboards because of really bad brownouts and after fitting an UPS(made by APC) they had no problems in the last 3 years. Dave -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html