I will try out your suggestions and let you know regarding this cable thing, what about the selective startup anything I should try to disable in particular? Or any special procedure I have to follow?
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Here's an idea. Do you have an 80-conductor cable and not a 40 ? The 80 has real thin conductors compared to the thick 40 ones. Many people use the wrong kind of cable, and perhaps this is what happens.
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I've used the asus cable shipped with my motherboard, then I replaced it with an identical cable (shipped with my brother's identical motherboard), honestly I don't know wheter it's an 80 or 40 pin cable..
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I'd also be looking at several things. Jumpers on the device and placement on the cable. Also think about trying another IDE plug on the Motherboard. Maybe the board has a bad one. I've seen this once, where one IDE channel was bad, so I had to run both the HD and the CD-RW off the same one, on the same cable.
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Not an option unfortunately my MoBo, an ASUS P5LD2 has just ONE IDE channel available plus two useless RAID IDE channels that I can't use for other purposes..
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Switch the device around on the cable, and change the jumpers appropriately. If you are using "Cable Select", try a "Master" or "Slave" configuration, or the other way around. Whatever you are doing, try something different.
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Currently it's set in such fashion that the HDD is on Master and the DVD-RW is on Slave, should I invert?
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Also, maybe Power ? Is your PS adequate for the load you've go on it ?
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I got a 500W PS that should be fairly enough, even considered the fact that I removed a faulty HDD 250 GB SATA and replaced it with a small 40 GB IDE.
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Good luck and don't give up. Sleep is for the weak.
Girderman
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Thank you for giving me hope and for your patience, hopefully I'll see the light in this tunnel...