Problems with Optical Drive Install in MSI 865/PE Neo2-P b..

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I am building a new system, based on the MSI 865/PE Neo2-P board
(MS-6728 V2.0 ATX ) and a Pentium 4 2.8C CPU ( Not Prescott ) I have
installed the Graphics card ( ATI 9600) and a new Samsung 'Spinpoint'
160GB SATA HDD which I connected to SATA 1 connector.
I installed an Aopen CD/DVD writer and connected it to IDE2 and wished
to load the operating system. The PC sprang into life and the SATA
hard disk was correctly recognised as primary master drive. but no
sign of the CD/DVD writer. I enabled it in the BIOS but get the
message on initial boot ' Sec. Master – ATAPI incompatible, press F1'.

As this is my first DVD device I swapped it for a Samsung CD/RW unit
which has been in use in another box. The same message re ATAPI
incompatibility appeared.
The master drive is connected to the end and not the middle connector.
I have exchanged the cable from the CD/RW drive and checked that the
jumper on the unit is set to Master. To no avail - the same message
shows. It has occurred to me to clear the CMOS and start again with
drives set to AUTO in the BIOS. For information, I have taken
antistatic precautions and worn an anti-static wriststrap during the
build.
As this is the first time I have used a SATA HDD I wonder if there are
setup issues in the BIOS which lie at the root of the problem ?

Once this is sorted I can move on to installing the OS !

Any ideas/solutions much appreciated.

 

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This drove me totally nuts yesterday. I found that the two CDROMs I was
using must have been older. When I moved a DVD player (latest purchased
drive in the house) from my other computer, everything worked. BUT, when
installing WINXP, it kept getting hung up, like 30 times. I was eventually
able to get XP loaded, but only after removing one DIMM and clearing CMOS a
dozen times.

All seemed fine all day today, but tonight the system keeps hanging in
Windows, and I have to reset.

Now, it's dead like it was when I was trying to install windows. It goes
back and forth between EARLY CHIPSET INITIALIZATION and INITIALIZING VIDEO,
according to that LED thing on the back of the computer.

I need to write this up a bit better so I can ask the group how to fix, or
what they think is wrong, because I only have a few more days to return this
thing to the vendor.

If anybody has any initial thoughts on this, please let me know.

Thanks

"Denis Regan" <denregan54@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:ef681913.0405102024.25aae9a5@posting.google.com...
> I am building a new system, based on the MSI 865/PE Neo2-P board
> (MS-6728 V2.0 ATX ) and a Pentium 4 2.8C CPU ( Not Prescott ) I have
> installed the Graphics card ( ATI 9600) and a new Samsung 'Spinpoint'
> 160GB SATA HDD which I connected to SATA 1 connector.
> I installed an Aopen CD/DVD writer and connected it to IDE2 and wished
> to load the operating system. The PC sprang into life and the SATA
> hard disk was correctly recognised as primary master drive. but no
> sign of the CD/DVD writer. I enabled it in the BIOS but get the
> message on initial boot ' Sec. Master - ATAPI incompatible, press F1'.
>
> As this is my first DVD device I swapped it for a Samsung CD/RW unit
> which has been in use in another box. The same message re ATAPI
> incompatibility appeared.
> The master drive is connected to the end and not the middle connector.
> I have exchanged the cable from the CD/RW drive and checked that the
> jumper on the unit is set to Master. To no avail - the same message
> shows. It has occurred to me to clear the CMOS and start again with
> drives set to AUTO in the BIOS. For information, I have taken
> antistatic precautions and worn an anti-static wriststrap during the
> build.
> As this is the first time I have used a SATA HDD I wonder if there are
> setup issues in the BIOS which lie at the root of the problem ?
>
> Once this is sorted I can move on to installing the OS !
>
> Any ideas/solutions much appreciated.