Gigabyte GA-K8NS rev. 2.0 IDE2 will not detect anything

[pfrcom]

As per title - and no, it is not disabled in the BIOS

Leave CMOS battery out overnight, take defaults on boot, still doesn't detect

Clean install of XP shows Primary and Secondary channels in Device Manager

Board looks clean, no burnt traces anywhere that I can see

Any suggestions ?

[seanc]

Re: Gigabyte GA-K8NS rev. 2.0 IDE2 will not detect anything

Any caps next to the IDE channels?

Is IDE2 the only thing not working?

Have a look under the Northbridge heatsink for any damage - unlikely but possible.

[kaniki]

Re: Gigabyte GA-K8NS rev. 2.0 IDE2 will not detect anything

did this work one day then just not the next or did you change hardware one day when it started doing this or something else?

The reason I ask this is because maybe the hardware might conflict with each other or if you changed something, maybe the ribbon got cut or broke in a spot or maybe the jumpers are not correct (thinking of WD hard drives on that one.. if you have a single device and set their drive to master, then it will not work. have to set it to single or set the jumper across the slave and master pins sideways.. I would love to meed the idiot that thought that was a good idea.)

If worse came to worse, you could always get an IDE expansion card for your PCI slot if you need the extra 2 spaces..

[pfrcom]

Re: Gigabyte GA-K8NS rev. 2.0 IDE2 will not detect anything

IDE2 wasn't working when I got the board

Have tried various 80-wire and 40-wire cables, and other disks

The capacitors near the IDE connectors are all Nichicon HM - perhaps I should test them with ESR meter

Nearly as frustrating as the Asus CUV4X-C where neither of the IDE channels work, for which I have a Promise Ultra100 controller

[kc8adu]

Re: Gigabyte GA-K8NS rev. 2.0 IDE2 will not detect anything

reminds me of a gx270 that came in with the same issue.
it somehow had a sx bios flashed in it.flashed the proper bios and sec ide was back.
and i had a 939 asus of some type that had both missing and ghost hardware.yep wrong bios!
the p.o thought a bios flash would fix the instability from bad caps.he made a bigger mess and gave up.

[ratdude747]

Re: Gigabyte GA-K8NS rev. 2.0 IDE2 will not detect anything

reminds me of a gx270 that came in with the same issue.
it somehow had a sx bios flashed in it.flashed the proper bios and sec ide was back.
and i had a 939 asus of some type that had both missing and ghost hardware.yep wrong bios!
the p.o thought a bios flash would fix the instability from bad caps.he made a bigger mess and gave up.

i had a 939 asus (a8n32-sli) do that too. it had the right bios, supposedly, but would not boot. now that i flashed it to the newest bios, it works great. even with a modded bios screen. maybe a bent pin on the cpu did it, thats how i got it and the cpu, among other items in the van-load, for free.

jeez, some guys just don't understand that bad caps can't be worked around like that. the only solution for it is to get a new board or to recap it. reminds me of this thread (bad attempts at fixing bad caps):

https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=7511

KC, i wonder if it was the same guy... gx270 both times... odd...