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all ide devices fried?
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Dell Dimension 8200, p4, rambus ram...good machine Customer had cd-rom go bad, called in his 3-year parts and labor, and a tech came out installed new cd drive.... Computer ran fine for 12 hours...Shut down, upon boot-up windows xp went into checkdisk, then did a "memory dump", and shut down.... So then the computer would not recognize any ide devices, cd-rom's or harddrives.... I figure mobo is hosed (ide controller), so I call dell....I did say its possible all ide devices are fried..... Well take the hard drive home, and it wont recognize on my machine...... How can all ide devices get fried like that? Any tricks to getting this hard drive to work to get the data? TIA |
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Hmm,vey intersting. A neighbor called me a couple weeks ago with nearly
identical problem on a 1 year old Compaq. First call it turned out to be a bad hard drive. She had a compaq tech come over and replace it. Second call a week or so later I go over and no IDE drives are being detected in the BIOS. I tell her to call compaq again and tell them her motherboard is bad.Sure enough they come out again and tell her they need to replace the mobo now. Pretty sure she had a poweer surge during a reallly bad lightning storm here in Fla. Dell Dimension 8200, p4, rambus ram...good machine Customer had cd-rom go bad, called in his 3-year parts and labor, and a tech came out installed new cd drive.... Computer ran fine for 12 hours...Shut down, upon boot-up windows xp went into checkdisk, then did a "memory dump", and shut down.... So then the computer would not recognize any ide devices, cd-rom's or harddrives.... I figure mobo is hosed (ide controller), so I call dell....I did say its possible all ide devices are fried..... How can all ide devices get fried like that? Any tricks to getting this hard drive to work to get the data? |
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