New Motherboard Cannot Find IDE Drives

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Hello,

I am building a new machine (something I've done before but not in a while)
using an ASUS P5GPL motherboard. When I put my new Western Digital HD it
recognizes it, but thinks it is the third primary IDE drive. That seems OK
because I was able to format it and it boots correctly to that drive.

Then I installed my DVD burner (Sony) and it is never found by the BIOS.
There is only one IDE controller so I've tried many different combinations
when the ones that should work didn't. This included changing the IDE cable,
trying a CD burner and/or a regular IDE hard drive. I've tried changing the
jumpers to make the burner (or HD) the slave, the master and placing the
drives on different places on the IDE cable but nothing seems to work. I
tried forcing the BIOS to tell it there was a CDROM on the IDE but it just
gave me the error that there was no ATAPI compatible drive.

Is there something wrong with my motherboard? Is there any way I can test
this to make sure I'm not the problem?

Thanks for the help.

Archived from groups: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt (More info?)

Try disabling support for SATA drives in the bios. You could also try
setting both drives to Cable Select...

Tuner


"Big Brian" <briandotgloverspam2@blueyonderspam.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> "Gummy" <gumbatman@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:11d3khlb05rg609@corp.supernews.com...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am building a new machine (something I've done before but not in a
>> while)
>> using an ASUS P5GPL motherboard. When I put my new Western Digital HD
it
>> recognizes it, but thinks it is the third primary IDE drive. That seems
>> OK
>> because I was able to format it and it boots correctly to that drive.
>>
>> Then I installed my DVD burner (Sony) and it is never found by the
BIOS.
>> There is only one IDE controller so I've tried many different
>> combinations
>> when the ones that should work didn't. This included changing the IDE
>> cable,
>> trying a CD burner and/or a regular IDE hard drive. I've tried changing
>> the
>> jumpers to make the burner (or HD) the slave, the master and placing
the
>> drives on different places on the IDE cable but nothing seems to work.
I
>> tried forcing the BIOS to tell it there was a CDROM on the IDE but it
>> just
>> gave me the error that there was no ATAPI compatible drive.
>>
>> Is there something wrong with my motherboard? Is there any way I can
test
>> this to make sure I'm not the problem?
>>
>> Thanks for the help.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Id say there was a fault with a motherboard controller or a setting in
the
> BIOS which needs a tweka. I did an ASROCK at the weekend and that was
> setup for no IDE devices in the BIOS
>
>


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Archived from groups: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt (More info?)

A cheap (18 quid) motherboard which is pretty good value for money if
building systems for just word and excel work


"Gummy" <gumbatman@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the info, I'll give it a try.
>
> BTW, what's an ASROCK?
>
> "Gummy" <gumbatman@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:11d3khlb05rg609@corp.supernews.com...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am building a new machine (something I've done before but not in a
> while)
>> using an ASUS P5GPL motherboard. When I put my new Western Digital HD it
>> recognizes it, but thinks it is the third primary IDE drive. That seems
>> OK
>> because I was able to format it and it boots correctly to that drive.
>>
>> Then I installed my DVD burner (Sony) and it is never found by the BIOS.
>> There is only one IDE controller so I've tried many different
>> combinations
>> when the ones that should work didn't. This included changing the IDE
> cable,
>> trying a CD burner and/or a regular IDE hard drive. I've tried changing
> the
>> jumpers to make the burner (or HD) the slave, the master and placing the
>> drives on different places on the IDE cable but nothing seems to work. I
>> tried forcing the BIOS to tell it there was a CDROM on the IDE but it
>> just
>> gave me the error that there was no ATAPI compatible drive.
>>
>> Is there something wrong with my motherboard? Is there any way I can test
>> this to make sure I'm not the problem?
>>
>> Thanks for the help.
>>
>>
>>
>
>