Biostar M7VIW w/Athlon 1600 Will Not Recognize HD

[tate61]

A friend of mine had a thermal event in his ATX case due to the case fan wires disconnecting and shorting against his PIII motherboard. The power supply and motherboard contained damage.

To start the repair a Biostar M7VIW motherboard was purchased with an AMD Athlon 1600 CPU. Next a new 250W power supply was added.

Leaving his original harddrive, cd, cdrw disconnected I fired the the system up with a Win 98 startup disk in the floppy. No video was present so I then added a TNT card I had lying around. Video was now OK except the floppy did not function. So I added a floppy from an old system and now the PC appears to boot properly so I can have access to the bios. Next step was to add the old harddrive back into the system. This Quatumn LCT15 20GB drive was set to master and placed on IDE1. In result the bios doesn't recognize the drive! So I placed the CD drive (set to master) onto IDE1 to see if the bios would find it. The bios did not detect it either. Next I swapped IDE cable with the same result. So, I went into the bios to make sure both IDE controllers were enabled; they were by default. Finally I tried the IDE2 with the same results.

What is going on, why can't the bios recognize either drive?


Thanks for your time and help.
Tate

 

[paparazi]

If I had to guess I would say the hard drive got damaged on the old shorted out moby and now it has damaged the new motherboard.
Martin

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[rclarke250]

Actually you never stated if you tried other then his original drives. Try different drives,mobo might be ok.
Had a system struck by lightning and only thing didn't fry was the fdd.