Help! no IDE detection

Ok, i was installing a hardcano fan controller, and upon trying to boot to afterwards, i got a boot error. i tried reinstalling winxp from a CD and it said it couldn't format the drive due to it being damaged. i assumed it was just the hard disk had fried itself, since the CD rom still worked. however, after getting a SATA drive (Which is detected), my CD from drive no longer boots!! the option to boot from CD isnt even in the bios. it DOES detect something on IDE0 but it won't recognize it as a CD rom drive. i've tried 4 different CD roms. could it be that i fried the board?
why would the CD rom drive work earlier and not now?

ok... so it wasn't really a huge deal after all. i had already checked all my bios settings and all that... what was concerning me was that my CD rom worked the night before but not now... and then i realized.. both HDDs (which i thought i'd fried) where connected to IDE cable A, whereas my CDrom was on IDE cable B. when i was not getting CD-ROM detection it was because it was on IDE cable A, which i have now determined is faulty! yay!
so my HDDs probably still work, and i just need to return the cable.

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