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Jul 15, 2011 Rating Motherboard failure by: Suupor Hello Gordon, If the drives work in another computer without problems and you have reseated the cables I would say the motherboard took part of the power strike that killed the power supply. Normally when a surge goes through the power supply most of the components are damaged. You have done all the steps I would have done and my conclusion is the two controllers (IDE and SATA) are damaged. If you can't afford a new motherboard you could temporarily use add on cards to get the hard drive and CD/DVD drive operational. There are add on cards that have both IDE and SATA controllers on one card. (See my hardware review section for one to stay away from). Hope this helps ...

Jul 16, 2011 Rating Motherboard can't see HDD or DVD Drive by: Joe Hi Monte & Gordon,could you clarify whether you had to correct the clock before or after you changed the battery. Also check http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c00590499#A2. This will explain how to reset the CMOS in the BIOS (not sure if you have done this already). You say the BIOS is working O/K but don't explain how you come to that conclusion. If you check the method we used to trace the fault causing my laptop keyboard to stop responding. The last thing I wanted to do was Re Flash the BIOS as I at least had a working Laptop and as Monte points out I could have ended up with nothing working.I think you are in the situation where that does not matter as you have a non working system.So you have nothing to lose by trying to Flash the BIOS. Also I would try building the system back up with the minimum components incase some other components are causing any load on one of the Buses. Perhaps ASUS mother boards are suspect to BIOS corruption. Regards Joe.

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