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Pimary disk 0 not found

Asked by zappacom in Miscellaneous Hardware, Hardware Components

Tags: 0, found, disk, primary, drive

I am working on a Dell Deminsion 43300. The hard drive si fried. I wanted to test the mother board and everything else, so I can see if I only need to replace the hard drive. I am able to post and enter the system BIOS with nothing connected but the video card. So I believe the motherboard is OK. I have placed another hard drive with the same OS(XP) on it into the PC and still receive the "primary disk 0 not found" Hit F1 to continue or F2 to enter system setup". F! does nothing, and F2 enters the setup. While in the set up i can see that the primary disk 0 is recognized as a hard drive, and if I hit enter it recognizes the capacity of the drive and the model number. I have the boot options set to boot to the hard disk only, I have jumpered the hard drive to master, I have tried as cable select, I have changed ribbon cables and placed on the secondary IDE controller, at which point I receive "secondary drive 0 not found". I have removed and replaced the CMOS battery. I was going to try to flash the BIOS, but wanted to see if anyone had any other suggestions. I have noticed that the motherboard has 2 lights on it one is yellow, and the other green. I have not realy noticed this before and assume that it is ok. I also noticed that the power supply smells like it may have been burning out. I have cleaned the power supply and it does not smell any more. I only mention this because my other thought was may there is not enough power being generated? I am at a loss here, and it is kicking my butt. All help welcome
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