Help me solve this problem please

Thanks for the advice... I will try stripping down the system and putting hardware on one by one, trying to get it to run with the other hard drive (I have an operating system installed on this one but use it as a slave drive). I'm pretty sure it is not a power supply issue since my power supply literally burned up last year and I replaced it with a new one. Everything seems to be getting power; hard drives are spinning and CD drives are fired up.

I tried turning it on again to figure out what was going on, and on two trials the startup script showed on my monitor and both times detected IDE devices [cd-rom and dvd-rom] but froze when it said "scanning IDE devices."

Thoughts??

Thanks again,

MisterW

Maybe a bent IDE pin in the the IDE drive or on the IDE slot on the motherboard.

I just realized the PC speaker is not connected. I am currently trying to figure out how to connect it (any advice?), and hopefully I'll get some sort of beeping that will indicate what is wrong.

If I were to get an identical motherboard and just plug everything in like it is now, would it work? Specifically, would the RAID 0 work without any data loss?

Thank you for your advice on this headache of a situation,

MisterW