| I recently acquired a couple of Webpals on clearance. Through prior existing board errors and/or my own erros in not recognizing the correct orientation of the IDE connector on at least one of the motherboards, both exhibit the same problem (the third doesnt appear to do anything linux or webpalwise, but it may be DOA).... any IDE drive plugged in will not spin up if it is plugged into the webpal. If it is not plugged in the (known good) drive(s) will spin up as expected. This behaviour occors even after the U2-pin10 surgery (although not necessary since the board is of a revision with the 665GT.) So, did I somehow manage to burn out the super-IO chip by plugging the IDE connector backwards (I've never seen this happen on any PC-AT since the time when connectors were not polarized), or is there something else not clipped, cut or otherwise needed to enable IDE, or are all the boards (these are from Surplus Computers) suspect duds ? Additionally the ethernet, while recognised gives timeouts and sporadic hex code error "chirping" and ping times greater than alpha-centauri :). I'm suspecting that unfortunately I may have burnt out the SuperIO chip and the board offers no "oops" protection, however strange this seems to be. Thanks in advance for any help. | |
