P4P800 HDD / CD Rom combination question

[Guest]

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Hey there

I have an ASUS p4p800 deluxe mobo

Attached to this I have two optical drives as Master and Slave on one IDE
channel

I have one parallel HD set to Master on another IDE channel

and one SATA HD drive on the first sata channel - this is my Primary boot
drive

Now I have a spare parallel HD that I would like to use. I add it as a slave
with the other HD and boot.

The BIOS recognises the drive in the drive tables.

However, when I boot - strange things happen. First time, I got the blue
text screen saying it had to test a drive for consistency which it did and
past. Then it just wont seem to boot.

It gets so far and then resets itself.

Any ideas or suggested setups ?

Thanks

Simon

 

[BigJim]

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you may need to partition the drive and then format it.
even if you boot with a 98se disk, once it is partition and formatted
you can use xp to repartition it and format in ntfs
"xbs" <theSPAMplebism@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hey there
>
> I have an ASUS p4p800 deluxe mobo
>
> Attached to this I have two optical drives as Master and Slave on one IDE
> channel
>
> I have one parallel HD set to Master on another IDE channel
>
> and one SATA HD drive on the first sata channel - this is my Primary boot
> drive
>
> Now I have a spare parallel HD that I would like to use. I add it as a
> slave
> with the other HD and boot.
>
> The BIOS recognises the drive in the drive tables.
>
> However, when I boot - strange things happen. First time, I got the blue
> text screen saying it had to test a drive for consistency which it did and
> past. Then it just wont seem to boot.
>
> It gets so far and then resets itself.
>
> Any ideas or suggested setups ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Simon
>
>
>

 

[JohnS]

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You should not have anything on ide 0 if you are booting
from a SATA drive.

johns