Last night my power supply over heated and got fried, so today I bought a new one. I get it hooked up and I've tryed every jumper/IDE configuration possible but my PC will not recognize either of my HDDs. The only thing that is different from last night is the new power supply. I can get the PC to recognize my DVD drive but even when I use the same power connection and IDE cable as the DVD drive it still wont recognize the master HDD. After failing all those times I took the master HDD out and made it a slave in another PC and it worked fine. I don't know what else to try.
I've tried only having the master HDD connected as a slave. master, and w/o a jumper, and I've tried it while having 2 HDDs and a DVD drive connected with the same jumper configurations for the master and left the slave HDD jumper alone in the slave position. I've disconnected the IDE cables completely and reconnected them. The power supply has the same max output as the old 1 and I could feel the HDDs spinning every time I turned the PC on.

I'm thinking.......
You've exhausted every avenue I'd have gone down immediately.

You've tried the jumpers on the Master HD in both Master and Cable Select positions ?

when the power supply fried it could have caused some damage to the motherboard. Mind you first thing id try is setting bios to factory default / failesafe settings and see

Hello CareBralcow, welcome to PCHF.

The fact that your last one overheated is extreemly worrying. Do you know why it overheated? Was it a poor quality power supply? Did the fan fail? Was the overall system temperature too high? If the last one blew, then there's no telling what damage this could have caused further down the line - motherboard, hdd controller, hdd board itself.

The first thing you need to do is to find out exactly what is working properly and what is not. Disconnect everything except for your main HDD. Connect your main HDD as Primary Master, Primary Slave and then Secondary Master and finally Secondary Slave. Do the same with your other HDD and then your DVD ROM. ---You will then see a pattern.

Reminder: The jumper settings is different between devices, so make sure that you check the label between each one.

he said he tested the hdd in another machine wish id thought it might have damged the motherboard

As slave, yes your right. But what about the other HDD and DVD? I'm suspecting controller failure, do you agree? Mind you, it wouldn't harm to try another IDE cable, just in case.

yeah I agree it could have blown the controller. Might have messed up the bios also thats why I think a cmos clear will be a good first step. It does depend on how the psu blew if it proper blew anything could have been blitzed