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AMD690GM-M2 cannot boot from SATA

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creepster   04-05-2008 at 09:38:58 PM

I bought an ECS motherboard with a WD SATA hard drive and Samsung SATA DVD+/-RW drive. The BIOS does not recognize either of these as IDE on boot. It gives me the lovely message "Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter". I have tried all the SATA options in the current BIOS. I am now going to take a USB floppy drive back to my room to attempt to upgrade the BIOS. In the meantime any advice would be much appreciated. :fou:

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creepster   04-05-2008 at 11:06:47 PM
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OK, it boots from the USB floppy and says "Starting..." then it stops reading the drive and halts. I think this board is just dead, which makes me very sad.

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jitpublisher   04-05-2008 at 11:33:33 PM
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Do you have the bootable devices set, and the boot order correct?
Did you set the SATA option to "emulated IDE mode", or something like that?

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creepster   04-06-2008 at 12:50:14 AM
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I have the bootable devices set and I've tried manually choosing devices too (it says it can't find a CDROM or HDD). I tried all the different SATA modes.

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