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 Feb 7 2007, 06:01 AM
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I connected the DVD master and CD slave drives to the one IDE connector I have on the board. I bought an IDE controler board for the two IDE Hard drives I have. One is a 40gig Western Digital (Original) Master 250gig Seagate (Just bought 1 month ago) Slave I checked the controller card and it is seated properly in one of two PCI slots and the IDE cable to primary on the card is properly attached. At the HDDs I rechecked the master and slave settings twice and they are ok I have the ribbon cable end connector on Mater and the middle connector on slave, power is also connected properly. Other things 1 The 40gig HDD still has Win XP on it 2 I put the CD in for the drivers on the IDE controler card and does not install. 3 I simple cannot find Auto detect in Bios it should be in Advanced but it is not there. 4 When it goes through its self examination a message comes up that the HDD is not detected. I tried to reinstall Xp but it gets to a point where it is telling me that the HDD cannot be found I am not sure where to take this can anyone please help thanks |
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Feb 7 2007, 07:42 AM
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Have you tried putting the optical drives on the controller card and the hard-drives on the motherboard?
Another thing you could try is updating the BIOS. The IDE port on the motherboard is already a separate IDE controller - the southbridge has no IDE support at all - and this has given some people compatibility headaches. Adding another controller may make it worse. A BIOS update could fix this. -------------------- "Anyone who cannot form a community with others, or who does not need to because he is self-sufficient [...] is either a beast or a god." Aristotle
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