JEAN PARROT wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

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

 JP>         This unit just does not want to come to life.

Seeing what you wrote in your other post to Matt,  I suspect that it's a
problem on the MB itself,  though I wouldn't toss the drive or CPU until
you've tested them with some other hardware.

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