bios doesnt detect my system's hard drive

[michellearendse]

hi all
today i decided to fix my usb port. i uplugged the wrong connectors. instead i unplugged the control cables. i struggled to get tem back in on the motherboard spikes. i needed to test the right spikes for the power sw cable so in had to test every two spikes. i switched the pc on and off several times untill i got to the right  place for the cable. now the pc doesnt want to boot into windows. i checked my bios settings..my drive is undetected. all cables are intact...did my drive fail because i switched the pc on and off several times??? am i screwed???

[DaveLembke]

Please provide pictures of what you did. Trying to figure out what spikes your talking about. 

[BC_Programmer]

Please provide pictures of what you did. Trying to figure out what spikes your talking about. 

Sounds like the front panel headers.

[Mark.]

so you didn't have a pin layout guide to go off, you just 'guessed' what pairs did what by trying a pair of spikes, rebooting and retrying?

ouch, I hope you haven't shorted something out.
(hopefully we are talking about the front panel header, and you didn't tried the same theory on the USB headers)

[DaveLembke]

Sounds like the front panel headers.

nods.... but given description i wanted to see what they were doing before making suggestions.