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Yas, and after I removed the heatsink from the motherboard and CPU, it seems that the compound has gone onto the CPU.

Cheers Berk!

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:look at base of intel heatsink.

does it have a slice (or few stripes) of grey crap on it?

If so, that's heatsink goo and you don't need heatsink goo.

(in short: probably ignore the manual on that point)

this. Most of the time, the heatsinks that come with retail CPUs already have some thermal compound on them, so you shouldn't have to worry about it.

My motherboard isn't detecting my IDE drives for some reason.

It did detect my DVD drive -once-, then nothing. Tried using different IDE and power cables, different BIOS settings, all different drives - bugger all.

Any suggestions dudes? I'm tempted to ring tech support but I thought I'd ask on here anyway.

(I ordered the Gigabyte motherboard that Stoat suggested rather then the ASUS. I imagine this is gonna byte me on the ass.)

jumpers?

TezzRexx wrote:(I ordered the Gigabyte motherboard that Stoat suggested rather then the ASUS. I imagine this is gonna byte me on the ass.)

shouldn't be a problem, I just suggest asus because I like asus.

Tried every jumper setting on the DVD drives still nothing

Tried properly resetting the bios? (pull battery, play with jumper etc)

I did try resetting the bios using the jumper but not the battery method, shall try that when i get home.

Failing that, pester them.

Cool, chars sah

Tried resetting the BIOS - no luck and Tech support is closed

hmm.

I trust all the devices work/worked in other machines?

Yup, worked perfectly.

The devices seem to be on if I don't have the IDE cable in them, and only using the power cable. However, once i insert the IDE cable, it turns off.

hmm.

I'll assume you're getting the cables in the right way etc.


Most likely a weird death has happened I think.

Yeah cables are the right way. The really weird thing is that it picked up one of my disk drives a couple of times, but I tried changing the cable with the one they supplied and then it wouldn't pick it, then I tried it with the original cable which it worked with before - wouldn't register it again

Really don't want to RMA really but blargh. I'll try and catch tech support tomorrow and if nothing works, RMA it is

Very odd.

May I suggest sata everything in future? i find it's a lot less finicky

Yeah i'm think of just getting a Sata DVD burner and be done with it, it's just I really need to transfer over my important shiz from my old hard drives.

Yup, I'd hassle the tits off tech support to see if they have any ideas, but it does sound like mobo be ill

You put it in a plastic tub and lobbed it in the freezer for 30 minutes yet?

Fab taught me that, and so far it's saved two hard drives.

Hehulk wrote:You put it in a plastic tub and lobbed it in the freezer for 30 minutes yet?

Fab taught me that, and so far it's saved two hard drives.

Drive apparently works still. not something i'd like to do unless it's life and death.

lolz naw, I'm fairly sure it's a motherboard problem rather then a HDD problem as the optical drives aren't working either.