Hi Folks,

I've recently built several systems using the MSI K7T Turbo2 board. These have served their owners well, and they have a great upgrade path so as to use up to an XP 2600+ chip, by simply flashing the BIOS to version 3.6.

My daughter has this mainboard in her home system, and it conked out all of a sudden. After a good bit of troubleshooting, I determined that the board was just flat dead, and since it was only a few months old, I RMAed it for another one. Got the replacement yesterday, and this morning put it together.

I've run into something that has me scratching my balding noggin. It appears that the IDE1 connector on the mainboard is dead. Nothing that I connect to it will work. I've cleared the CMOS and have tried two different hard drives that are known to work in other systems. I've tried several ribbon cables, but nothing (neither hard drives or CDs) are recognized on that connector. Conversely, the IDE2 connector is fine, and anything connected to it fires right up. If there is any way to check this for certain before I contact MSI to return it, I'm surely open to your ideas/suggestions. Thanks!

Happy Computing!

Limerick