K7T Turbo2 Secondary IDE possibly broken?

I've just bought a K7T Turbo2 Motherboard, and all seems to work except the secondary IDE slot. Here's the rundown:
My system has two hard disks, and two cd/dvd type drives. The hard disks are jumpered as master/slave on one channel, and the cd/dvd as master/slave on the other channel. I can plug either cable into the primary IDE and the bios recognises whatever is on there (either the two hard disks, or the dvd/cd). Whatever I plug into the secondary IDE does not get recognised. This suggests to me that the cables are fine, and since the jumper arrangement worked fine with my last pc and remains unchanged, I'm pretty sure it can only be the IDE2 socket or something I'm not doing right in the BIOS. That said, both IDE channels are DEFINITELY set to ENABLED in the BIOS, and yet I cannot select the secondary master/slave devices to be anything other than 'none'.
I've read the manual cover to cover and am at a loss for what to do next. Please help.  ?(
Richard.

:D  :D  :D  :D  :D
All sorted now. My own stupid fault - the board was being short-circuited by bits of the case (whatever it's called where the board is mounted). Took them off and all is good.

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