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[smokingmods]

just a thought on the subject, but since you have by process of elimination ruled a lot out, you may want to
take another 1.1-1.5 mobo with all the other parts and assemble, if they work the way they should, its the board.
it is possible the onboard ide controller is shot thus rendering it unable to identify the drive properly.

and on the noob bs, guys, take it with a grain of salt, the guy has no doubt got a customer who wants it back NOW and giving him plenty of crap about why havent you fixed it yet?

but would definately consider that is prolly gonna be the controller on the board

[jeremydammit]

i bought the whole xbox off the kid for 40 bux because I'm starting to lean further toward the fact that the ide controller is dead.  The ide controller works at least a lil though, because the thing knows when I take the hdd out, it gives me 7.  This is the third m/b since I started moddding a couple years ago that has had this error.  Im pretty sure I ended up scrapping the board for parts...lol