I bought a Asus K8N-E mother board a few months ago and have had to have it replaced 2x's all ready. I was excited today when I got the newest one back but as soon as I installed it I got the same problem that I had with it the last time I sent it in, only this time it didn't work for a couple weeks before begining to not detect anything conected to my IDE ports. I checked to make sure everythings jumpers were set right, to make sure everything was connected to pin 1 and to insure the power conectors were conected. I even tested 2 other hard drives but neither of those worked either. Now I have no idea what else to do. Like I said all this stuff was at one time working before being turned on one day to get the no hard drive detected error.

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Well, it sounds to me like there might be another culprit here. 3 bad mobo's within a few months? My first guess would be a sucky power supply. Give us as much detail about your hardware as possible. What are you running? Do you notice any changes before/during/after these faults occur? Like did you open up the case or uninstall a program or anything? Also, have you tested your RAM and hard drives for errors?

I still say it might be a power-related problem. Asus mobo's don't go bad like that.

I have the same board installed (939 pin and new build a few weeks old with AMD 3000+) and there has been about 3/4 times over the past couple of weeks that the HDD on my Primary IDE has dissapeared. (This is a 7-8 month old Maxtor drive and is used for storage only) I also had to replace the (new) floppy drive because I thought that this had gone dufunct.

To get it back I have (had) to re-boot the sytem. Up until now I jave been putting it down to a bad cable. Could/is this a problem with this model of motherboard?

My main drive (with OS) in a SATA and I have no problems with that.

It shouldn't be a power problem as it has worked fine at one time. I think i am going to have to just buy a sata hard drive and all in one sata dvd-rw.

kubu,
It could be a power problem. eg, bad psu slowly damaging the mobo. You cannot rule out the possilbilty of power-related problem just because new mobos work for a while.

The power supply is able to run everything though, but my motherboad is just not detecting it. I think ErnieK was right about it just being a problem wiht this particular series of MB. Does anybod have any external or sata HD or DVD-RW they want to sell?

Well, heck, at that point, why not just get a different mobo? See if Asus will convert you to a different one, or give you a coupon or something.