I have been asked to look at a computer which is failing to boot, it locks up when the ‘PCI Device Listing’ is on the screen. I can get to the Bios which sees both HDD and all seems ok, if I remove all adaptors from the computer and disconnect all drives etc leaving just the memory/cpu it will boot to the Bios and the keyboard NumLock/Caps lock lights work, if leaving all adaptor cards out for the moment I plug the floppy/hdd or cdrom into the IDE onboard ports then the system locks at the above point and the keyboard lights are now non-working (I have tried a different IDE cable and a known working HDD with the same result). Has the onboard IDE Controller gone kaput? if I was to buy a seperate PCI IDE controller would that work or is the Motherboard beyond help. The computer is a PII 233Mhz with 96Mb Ram & windows 98. Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.
