hard drives work on the computer im using now though.

So the suspect drive works on another PC? on the PC not seeing the drive unplug all IDE devices and set it as a master will it see it then?

i went ahead and unpluged all the disk drives, still wouldent work. But then i pluged the hard drive into one of the slots that a disk drive was in, and it works. Its like the 2 extra plugs on the mother board are not reading, o well lol. thanks for your help madmatt20006

no problems