Re: Dell Inspiron 7000 , BIOS says no HD

S.Lewis <Gossamer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"N_Cook" <diverse@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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No known history, had been dumped minus HD.
Display , battery, ps, DVD , keyboard , floppy is fine but does not
recognize there is a new/different HD. F2 setup BIOS page is "greyed
out"
on
the HD section. Would obtaining a Dell dignostics disk tell me anything
I
don't know.
Setup does recognize the DVD ident. 5V and grounds on the HD IDE
connector
are fine, and HD spins up properly. Should say I've borrowed a small
capacity HD , with DOS 5 on it, for checking out before getting a more
appropriate HD. I can load and operate DOS6 from floppy but no more than
that.

Obviously something had fallen mid centre of the keyboard, space bar
keytop
is missing but the switch functions. The empty MPEG case under is dented
and
a piece of structural plastic below it is cracked , so perhaps some
shockwave collateral damage somewhere






Possibles:

1) hard drive adapter to motherboard connect isn't present.

2) bent pins/contacts with either both of ^^^same^^^.

3) undetermined internal damage due to drop or other external causes.

meh.

Doesn't sound good.



I'd checked for shorts between pins of the connector and chacked for
continuity between each pin on the HD connector through to the mobo.

I'm assuming Dell uses industry standard IDE drives as far as the pinning is
concerned.




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