No HDs are recognized

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Does removing battery power have the same effect as
restoring the Default settings in the BIOS user interface?
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It does when the previous symptom was loss of system time.
 
It does when the previous symptom was loss of system time.
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The reason I ask is that's one of the things I did to my flaked out
machine the other day. It did not cure the problem immediately, but
when I cleaned it and let it cool off, it began working again.
 
The reason I ask is that's one of the things
I did to my flaked out machine the other day.
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OK, the short story is that sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesnt.

It doesnt with the data thats written to the flashrom bios.

Thats a more common location for the data now
with vastly more variables that need to be stored
and so dont get stored in the cmos anymore.

Most modern systems store even stuff as basic as the last seen
keyboard type connected in the ECD and update that at boot time.
It did not cure the problem immediately, but when
I cleaned it and let it cool off, it began working again.
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Yeah, looks like a dying motherboard.
 
@individual.net:

Which is why you responded with:

"That clock reset looks like you broke something."

"Try another ribbon cable, you may well have broken that."

.... and didn't mention BIOS reset or BIOS battery as potential
solutions.
 
Lie, I said just that.
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Your response - the 1st reply to the OP, quoted below - does NOT
say that, does it? Which makes you the liar.

Wanna try wriggling again?


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: No HDs are recognized
From: "Rod Speed" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 07:30:04 +1000


I just installed a second hard drive (setup as slave), but when I rebooted my
computer no hard drive was recognized and the motherboard clock
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was reset.

That clock reset looks like you broke something.
The computer asked me whether I wanted to hit F1 to reboot or F2 to go into
the setup. I went into the setup and neither hard disk was shown. My CD-ROM
drive and floppy are fine - but no hard disks. (I even tried to setup the new
hard disk as master, but it also wasn't recognized.)
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The last thing I tried was plugging the cables back (so only the master was
connected), but that didn't help either...
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Try another ribbon cable, you may well have broken that.

Do the drives actually spin up now ?
 
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