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I have the 865 NEO2-LS board and didn't have any problems with it.
Then I bought a WD 200GB SATA HDD for it. Turned on the BIOS settings
so I could have SATA and PATA working; PATA were channels 1&2, SATA
channels 3&$. Everything worked fine, still booting from the PATA.
Installed WinXP to the SATA drive, booted from the SATA drive and
edited the boot.ini so I could choose to run the old WinXP on the PATA
or the new WinXP on the SATA. Still worked fine.
Then I started getting blue screens in the old WinXP on PATA. Then I
noticed the dreaded HDD clicking sounds.
Now, when I boot up the BIOS can't detect the PATA Channel 1 that has
my HDD and DVD/RW drive. It detects PATA Channel 2 fine, and the SATA
channels.
The kicker is, I had an older HDD that went bad on me and exhibited the
same symptoms.
So - is it just coincidence that I've had 2 HDDs go up on me, or is
there something up with the board?
I have the 865 NEO2-LS board and didn't have any problems with it.
Then I bought a WD 200GB SATA HDD for it. Turned on the BIOS settings
so I could have SATA and PATA working; PATA were channels 1&2, SATA
channels 3&$. Everything worked fine, still booting from the PATA.
Installed WinXP to the SATA drive, booted from the SATA drive and
edited the boot.ini so I could choose to run the old WinXP on the PATA
or the new WinXP on the SATA. Still worked fine.
Then I started getting blue screens in the old WinXP on PATA. Then I
noticed the dreaded HDD clicking sounds.
Now, when I boot up the BIOS can't detect the PATA Channel 1 that has
my HDD and DVD/RW drive. It detects PATA Channel 2 fine, and the SATA
channels.
The kicker is, I had an older HDD that went bad on me and exhibited the
same symptoms.
So - is it just coincidence that I've had 2 HDDs go up on me, or is
there something up with the board?