BIOS will not recognize IDE HDD

[Sean cb]

I'm repairing a friends pc and im trying to use one of my older IDE HDD's.
Motherboard is MSI K8N Neo2. Tried about everything I can think of: changed cables, master/slave 0 & 1. Also made sure IDE was enabled and no HDD is coming up in BIOS. I put this hdd in an external enclosure to make sure it works. Took a minute to recognize in Win7 but works fine through usb. Any suggestions?

 

[_zxzxzx_]

I've had this issue before, it's usually not to do with the cables but the jumpers on the drive. Change the jumpers on the hdd to suit your configuration - Master, slave, cable select.

 

[Sean cb]

I've had this issue before, it's usually not to do with the cables but the jumpers on the drive. Change the jumpers on the hdd to suit your configuration - Master, slave, cable select.

I set jumpers from master to cable select and it worked like a charm! I even bought a sata drive thinking my IDE port was bad. You are a gentleman and a scholar, thank you!

 

[_zxzxzx_]

Glad it worked out!