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I just purchased the KG7 Lite and am having a problem on installation. My previous motherboard was an ABit LX-6.
I have always had two IDE hard drives on the Primary IDE controller (1Western Digital 20gig and 1 IBM 6 gig) , with 1 DVD-ROM and 1 CD Burner on the Secondary controller.
I left all jumpers on the drives as they were previously and took the cables off from the old motherboard while leaving it installed on the backs of all
of the drives.
After installing the new KG7 I plugged everything in, with the two IDE hard drives on the primary controller and the other DVD/Burner on the secondary controller. When I booted up, every drive was detected by the BIOS, but the
computer would not boot from the Primary Master IDE hard drive which has my operating system on it. It did not find a bootable hard disk. When I booted from a floppy, I could not see anything on either Hard drive. If I put a bootable CD in I was able to boot from CD on the secondary controller.
On a guess I switched the Primary controller cable to the secondary controller cable and rebooted. When I did that, my IDE hard drives were fine and the computer booted the operating system with no problems from the hard
drive. The DVD and CD rom both function nomally on the primary controller.
In the BIOS, it shows the DVD/CD drives on the primary and the IDE hard drives on the secondary. Why will it not work with the IDE hard drives on the primary controller?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Jim
I have always had two IDE hard drives on the Primary IDE controller (1Western Digital 20gig and 1 IBM 6 gig) , with 1 DVD-ROM and 1 CD Burner on the Secondary controller.
I left all jumpers on the drives as they were previously and took the cables off from the old motherboard while leaving it installed on the backs of all
of the drives.
After installing the new KG7 I plugged everything in, with the two IDE hard drives on the primary controller and the other DVD/Burner on the secondary controller. When I booted up, every drive was detected by the BIOS, but the
computer would not boot from the Primary Master IDE hard drive which has my operating system on it. It did not find a bootable hard disk. When I booted from a floppy, I could not see anything on either Hard drive. If I put a bootable CD in I was able to boot from CD on the secondary controller.
On a guess I switched the Primary controller cable to the secondary controller cable and rebooted. When I did that, my IDE hard drives were fine and the computer booted the operating system with no problems from the hard
drive. The DVD and CD rom both function nomally on the primary controller.
In the BIOS, it shows the DVD/CD drives on the primary and the IDE hard drives on the secondary. Why will it not work with the IDE hard drives on the primary controller?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Jim