P5GD1-VM

[ken]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

Have a good question for this board. I
am trying to get the system to boot on
my cdrom drive. When I first boot up it
says "please wait for IDE scan and then
it finds my cdrom. I have my cdrom as
master on the second IDE cable by
itself. I have two hard drives on the
first IDE cable. When I go into setup it
doesnt list my cdrom drive anywhere so
cant set it up as a boot device. I
switched one hard drive with the cdrom
and then it told me the hard drive and
cdrom are on number 3 in setup but still
couldnt select it as a boot drive. I
hope you all follow this and can help.
Thanks.
KEN

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

Ken <asken@att.net> wrote in
news:11iiv0tm6lmlet84ng35oojov413h7tq8q@4ax.com:

> Have a good question for this board. I
> am trying to get the system to boot on
> my cdrom drive. When I first boot up it
> says "please wait for IDE scan and then
> it finds my cdrom. I have my cdrom as
> master on the second IDE cable by
> itself. I have two hard drives on the
> first IDE cable. When I go into setup it
> doesnt list my cdrom drive anywhere so
> cant set it up as a boot device. I
> switched one hard drive with the cdrom
> and then it told me the hard drive and
> cdrom are on number 3 in setup but still
> couldnt select it as a boot drive. I
> hope you all follow this and can help.
> Thanks.
> KEN
>
>

yeah I went through a similar deal recently. Read your manual CLOSELY. You
can NOT see the second IDE drive until you install the drivers on the
cdrom disk included with the mb. What I did was install boot disk and dvd
drive on PRI_IDE1 and my second disk on PRI_PCIIDE1.

Now to see the drive on the second cable(PRI_PCIIDE1)...you have to
install the driver during windows install...hit F6 I think it is...or you
can go ahead and install windows...then add the driver after
install...then you can see the drive.

Hope that helps.

 

[ken]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

I finally got it ok. I put my cd drive
as slave on number one and my second
hard drive on number two and seems to
work ok now. I can boot from cd, hd, or
floppy. thanks for the help.
KEN


On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 02:28:55 GMT, nop90
<bjones_calif@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Ken <asken@att.net> wrote in
>news:11iiv0tm6lmlet84ng35oojov413h7tq8q@4ax.com:
>
>> Have a good question for this board. I
>> am trying to get the system to boot on
>> my cdrom drive. When I first boot up it
>> says "please wait for IDE scan and then
>> it finds my cdrom. I have my cdrom as
>> master on the second IDE cable by
>> itself. I have two hard drives on the
>> first IDE cable. When I go into setup it
>> doesnt list my cdrom drive anywhere so
>> cant set it up as a boot device. I
>> switched one hard drive with the cdrom
>> and then it told me the hard drive and
>> cdrom are on number 3 in setup but still
>> couldnt select it as a boot drive. I
>> hope you all follow this and can help.
>> Thanks.
>> KEN
>>
>>
>
>yeah I went through a similar deal recently. Read your manual CLOSELY. You
>can NOT see the second IDE drive until you install the drivers on the
>cdrom disk included with the mb. What I did was install boot disk and dvd
>drive on PRI_IDE1 and my second disk on PRI_PCIIDE1.
>
>Now to see the drive on the second cable(PRI_PCIIDE1)...you have to
>install the driver during windows install...hit F6 I think it is...or you
>can go ahead and install windows...then add the driver after
>install...then you can see the drive.
>
>Hope that helps.