Good morning, Roy.

 RJT> That's possible.  But what hit me when I read of this initially was
 RJT> the same thing that hit me this time -- possibly a bad cable?  I'd try
 RJT> another ribbon cable before anything else,  then if that doesn't work
 RJT> try the other connector on the MB.

 RJT> Also,  try swapping the _power_ cable to the drive for a different
 RJT> one.  Sometimes those have been known to loosen up.

        Roy, littel do you know but all this was tried and more. When I
        got the unit, it had both IDE used, the HDD and the CD-ROM were
        both masters. Good, that gave me two ribbon cables.

        This unit just does not want to come to life.

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