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> > The dumb part now is that when I go through the CMOS self-check, where it Auto-Detects the HDD's first and then boots them, the CMOS is now detecting "Primary & Secondary Slave: None". I did make sure to go the CMOS setup and change the boot sequence from "C,CDROM,A" to "C only", but that made no difference. Also, I don't recall that the HDD LED light is supposed to be "on" all the time during the RAM check during the self-test, even *before* the boot sequence...
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I'm not sure about the rest of your symptoms, but this sounds like a classic case of an upside-down IDE cable. This inadvertently happened to me last week while installing a new hard drive. Make sure the cables are in the right way and see if your CMOS can detect either drive. If the hard drive light is on, constantly, but the drive itself doesn't spin up, then there's a good chance that this is the problem.

Tom