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Problem booting from SATA DVD on GA-P35-DS3L

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coolvoodoo   01-27-2008 at 08:14:05 PM

There is no choice to boot from SATA in the BIOS, there is a choice for CDROM, but the motherboard seems to be interpreting it differently, as it always boots from the HD no matter how I have the boot sequence set.........
Any ideas?

------------------------------ Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L, Intel E2160@3.0GHz, Asus EN9800GT Ultimate, 2GB A-Data DDR2 PC6400, Creative Audigy 2 Platinum, (2) Samsung SH-203N SATA DVD-RW, Seagate 640GB SATA HD, Seagate 320GB SATA HD, WinXP
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roadrunner197069   01-27-2008 at 08:37:18 PM
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Some boards have specific plugs for HDD only make sure you didnt plug into one of those.

Make sure your Sata is set to run in IDE mode. Disable anything raid.

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coolvoodoo   01-28-2008 at 01:28:25 AM
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Thanks, Roadrunner!
You got me thinking and I realized that only the SATA 0/1 connector on the GA-P35-DS3L is IDE enabled. I swapped one of the DVD SATA cables to that connector and now I can boot from that DVD burner.
Nice work!

------------------------------ Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L, Intel E2160@3.0GHz, Asus EN9800GT Ultimate, 2GB A-Data DDR2 PC6400, Creative Audigy 2 Platinum, (2) Samsung SH-203N SATA DVD-RW, Seagate 640GB SATA HD, Seagate 320GB SATA HD, WinXP
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