Here's some feedback for those interested on my HD problem. I appreciate
your interest and help.

The OS is WIN95 w/ SR2. The MB supports autodetect and is currently
supporting a new HD combination of a master (jumper set) and a slave
drive, also jumper set, all connected on a fresh IDE cable. This
configuration works fine.

My testing used the above as a base setup into which I switched the
slave units. The old, failed WD is not recognized during boot in Win95,
nor when booting from a utility floppy and using FDisk.

Feedback to your ideas:
1. I don't have a similar HD to swap boards. The HD is dated 1995.
2. The MB autodetects, so I didn't change CMOS settings by running
Setup.
3. Only one IDE cable is used, a new one now.
4. Mentioned by Brooke, the unit temperature may be noteworthy. Fact,
the pc would
not boot on a Monday morning. Weekends here are sometimes very cool in
the office. Therefor, the pc was the coldest, being off for 2 days, when
I turned it on and it would not boot then.

Right now I heating up the old HD, using the heat from the top on the
monitor, and will leave it there all day. In the evening I'll try the
hotter drive as I did before.

Thanks again, Peter

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