[mythtv-users] OT: Hardware failure

[Andrew Burgess]

>No luck.  I switched out the IDE ribbon and had the same results... able to
>boot the old fc3 drive but not a newer winxp or fc6 drive.  I also retried
>the fedora live cd while the working HDD was connected and was not able to
>get that to boot either. I triple checked all the pins and there is nothing
>visibly wrong anywhere.

There is a BIOS setting for disk drive geometry, I've forgotten the acronym.
Since you have an old system and since you reset the BIOS its possible the
default value is now the opposite of what worked before. Try changing that.

HTH