Good morning to you Leonard, how are you today ? 

 LE> If you are using IDE drives and don't haver a controller card, then
 LE> there's at least one *usually *two*) IDE connectors on the
 LE> motherboard. And the CMOS setup utility  *will* let you turn them off
 LE> on many (if not most) motherboards.

        Yes. Now that you mentioned it, I remember seeing this. But at
        the moment, I am some 300 miles away from that system and will
        not be able to further my information. I really do not know what
        I can do or not do with this option concerning the IDE
        capability of the MoBo.

        Redoing the OS seems to have triggered this back to ON, it is
        now working. This is on an old CD device. It has not information
        that comes forth on the screen. To get it working, I have to set
        the Slave on Secondary IDE to "None". The rest of the booting
        process sees it and it is useable.

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