That's what I kinda figured, no cable. Unfortunately, I doubt that a bios
flash (rewrite) will have much impact. If you have it open. find and
disconnect the bios battery (if available) for a while to allow all cmos
settings to be lost. PIP, Peripheral Interchange Program. or something to
that effect, as I remember. I remember having to rewrite the bios in an 820
to support a parallel printer. Ah, the good old days.
Ron
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"Ron Moore" wrote in message
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In a laptop/notebook, cables are not prone to come loose or loose
connection. More often, cables can be torn or damaged in the process of
trying to just get to them in the laptop case. It's not just 2 screws
and pop the cover. Can happen, yes, but not at all likely.
Respectfully,
Ron Moore
Servicing PC's since CPM (but that doesn't necessarily mean anything)

Then you remember "pip"? I still have a Xerox 820/BigBoard that I soldered
together from surplus parts. Kids today that have "built" computers don't
even OWN a soldering station.

No cable! header on the mb. Won't boot with either drive removed. No
way to enable or disable the interface in bios, it either sees drives or
it don't. I see that laptops are way different than desktops.