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sabre39j   10-18-2008 at 04:26:16 PM

I installed a new 1t Sata drive for a new storage drive; Bios sees it but when trying to boot system keeps looping. If i disconnect the new drive my system comes up fine. I hot plug the drive in after boot up and system sees it just fine. I have also moved main drive to sata 3 and new to sata 4 same thing

Motherboard: Asus A8N32 - Deluxe
Memory: 2 gigs
Main drive: WD 5000 KS
OS XP Pro SP3
PS: 450watt

I thought it might be the 3.0 g/sec limit but that did not solve issue either I am honestly stuck; Looked on multiple forum but have not come across this problem

Thanks

If this has been discussed and i missed the thread just bonk me with the link :)

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jtt283   10-18-2008 at 04:52:29 PM
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What brand/model is your PSU? It may be right at the edge of its capacity, and spinning up two drives at the same time is too much for it.

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particleman   10-18-2008 at 05:05:59 PM
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Did you set the right drive to boot to?

Is your mobo set in a Raid mode, or IDE read mode?

-PM

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sabre39j   10-18-2008 at 05:46:26 PM
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PS is an Antec and i was wrong its a 550 watt

yes the wd5000ks is boot drive then dvd drive then blank

i do not use raid, and my raid sata port is red and far away from the other sata ports. If there is a jumper setting (which i did even think of then i am unaware of it)

bios setting is for sata 2.0 not raid

thank you for your replies

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jtt283   10-18-2008 at 05:54:23 PM
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Hmmm, is there an option in the BIOS to delay the startup? Try 2-3 seconds and see what happens.

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sabre39j   10-18-2008 at 07:57:49 PM
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checked the bios and did not see a delay for the drives and its current at 1303...just wanted to cover that as well

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sabre39j   10-18-2008 at 09:36:32 PM
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I also set the drive to the 1.5g/sec setting and the same thing

could it be a corrupt ntldr? The PC runs fine with the single drive

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sabre39j   10-19-2008 at 06:38:09 PM
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Eureka we have made progress :bounce:

Last night I loaded an old 80gig drive with a fresh windows install just to see if it was possibly a MB issue (never know). Everything worked perfectly and I had all 4 Sata ports running with drives from fresh boot all the way to windows loading with no problems or continous rebooting.

so i am thinking i need to do a fdisk /mbr in RC but just wanted verify before i started using an axe instead of a scalpel.

Thanks for you help

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