IDE drives startup problem. New set up with the GA-MA790-X-UD4P board. On the IDE side, I have the DVD-R/W in the boot path. When I hook up an IDE hard drive, neither are recognized. HDD alone and it is recognized. What could I be missing? A jumper issue?...

future (the Portege has no floppy drive, but can access the CD/DVD drive at startup, if necessary. TIA for any solutions.. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain () I recently had a startup problem with my Toshiba Portege - no...

might have to specify that your computer use its DVD or CD drive as the startup device. This means that you need to set the DVD or CD drive to be the first startup device in the basic input/output system (BIOS). To learn how to do this, see Start Windows from...

PC card) supply is used. Thanks in advance. >>> Fr@nk It is most likely power if you are certain the larger drive functions. This is a very common problem with external drives where startup power (instantaneous volts x amps available) is inadequate....

Hard Drives, Startup and More. Hello everyone, I tried posting over in the Windows 7 section but I think I'll have better luck here (I hope). Ok let me start with what I got: a GA-K8N Ultra 9 Gigabyte Motherboard (AMD Socket 939), 3xSATA II hard drives 1xSATA...

G6-400 not seeing DVD/CD-RW drives at startup. Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000 () I have an older Pentium II 400 mhz system that is not recognizing either the DVD or CD-RW drive at startup (before Windows loads). Consequently, Windows doesn't...

Startup problem. Everytime I boot up (ME) recently for some reason, Explorer insists upon opening two windows displaying directorys of C and D hard drives. How can I stop this? I have checked through my startup programs and system configs but I can't find...

1. Hook up DVD drive and set jumper to the master position. Did it. >> 2. Put Windows Startup floppy in floppy drive. Did it. >> 3. Choose "With CDROM support" at startup. Did it. >> 4. Note letter it assigns the drive. Not sure about this. Here is what...

Drive' in 'my computer?' This happens even when a system is >powered up with the networked system already online (supposed to >reconnect on startup). This is by design. Windows will not reconnect the drives on startup but on the first use. -- (tm)...

disk, 2. 1st IDE device, 3. Atapi CD-rom, and 4. network. Now at startup its asking for a disk in drive A. How do i get it to startup normal again. Thanks Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000 () 1. 1st IDE device Ty "Sunshine"...