The first thing to check...
Look in the BIOS and see if the IDE channels are turned on and what they are set
to and/or think the hard drive size is.
If you have "AUTO", that is generally safe for the hard drive. (Some CD drives
like "none" better...)

This assumes you have checked and set the hard drive jumpers to the proper positions.

Which drives are you connecting to which ribbon cable or cables?
This will effect the jumper positions.

                            Rick Glazier
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From: "Frank Sestir" <[log in to unmask]>

> I am trying to resurrect an ASUS TX97-E motherboard.  233MMX with 32MB ram.
> Upon bootup I am unable to have it 'see' my hard drive or cdrom. It does boot
> to dos. I have tried hard drives from size 300mb or so up to 2.1mb but it just
> doesn't find them.  I also have tried 8x CDROM to 32x CDROM drives and it
> doesn't see them either.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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