Hard drives not detected after bios update

Hello
K7T Turbo 2 kt133a
I bought a new chip a while back and therefore updated my bios.
My system has worked on and off for a while now, however i have not been able to get it to boot for 2 days.
I have tried bios version 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6, the same thing in all cases.  
So i decided that the problem was not the bios, but my IDE cable, so i installed another one, still no had drives!!
even when my first hard drive is recognized and the system boots, the secon hard drive isn never detected.
What do I do now???
Dude I think i migh just have to order a dell.......
Any help would be great
thanks

Hi
jumpers should be right
the top HD (on the end of the cable) is l:::
and the bottom (slave i assume) is ::l:
My PSU details are as follows (dont know much about power supplys)
it is called a switching power supply (likely not a very good one)
Max output is 300W
115V / 7A / 60hz
+3.3 +5    +12   -12     -5     +5sb  Blk   Grn     Gry
14A   30A  10A   0.5A   0.5A  1.5A  Com  p-on  PG
Hope this heps
I have thought that this PS was a POS (piece of ) since day 1, so if i need to replace tell me what to get, this thing is loud, and the system has never been overly stable (the computer has always powered down etc on its own
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