Dim 9200 does not start; hard drives not found

I have a Dimension 9200 with 4 GB of RAM and two Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250 GB hard drives that works well for 8 or 9 years.

However, he has recently stopped start and displays the following message:

Drive 0 not found: Serial ATA, SATA-0

Drive 1 not found: Serial ATA, SATA-1

Strike F1 key to continue, F2 to run the Setup utility.

In addition, on the homepage of DELL for this message to appear, the splash remains for about a minute after the progress bar reaches its full potential. Meanwhile, the SATA 0 drive emits a continuous clicking sound (something like an old mechanical clock every second ticking).

Diagnosis initially 2 and 3 remain on (failure possible floppy or hard drive according to the manual) until the machine beeps and moves out of the start page of Dell to the message above. Exactly at this place, diagnostic light fire 1, 2 and 3 (manual says another failure).

I reinstalled the two HDs that made no difference whatsoever.

I also removed the cables power and data from disk SATA-0 and rebooted. This time, no delay was observed when the splash page reaches the end of its race progress bar, no noise has been heard since the SATA-1 remaining drive but the same message above appeared once more, as did the same 1, 2 and 3 diagnostic lights

I also put drive SATA 1 on SATA 0 and connected the power and SATA-0 data cables. However, the behavior is still the same (note that I use the Grub bootloader and it is installed on SATA-0, then the other drive is not bootable).

I also started from a USB key containing the GParted partition manager. It starts fine, but the single disc he sees is the USB. Or the SATA drives are recognized. It is worrisome.

I bought a new Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 with 250 GB which should arrive later this week. However, I'm starting to think that the problem drive is not my only problem (and of course, that's what the 1,2 and 3 diagnostic lights would seem to indicate).

I should be grateful if you would for clues, opinions or suggestions.

Thank you

Paul

Have you tried to enter the bios Setup, and then press alt + F? Save/quit it can detect readers.

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