asus a7v-333, ide drives not being detected

[ragear]

When I start up my computer, fast trak looks for the ide drives but can't find them. I have a master western digital hard drive on the primary ide cable, a master lite on dvd drive on the secondary ide cable, and a slave sony dru500a dvd writer on the secondary ide cable. Anyway, when I start up the computer it says fasttrak couldn't find any ide drives so I go into bios. In bios everything looked fine, it had all the ide drives and all. So I tried changing the bios settings to default, and after restarting a few times it will finally work. But it seems like the next day when I start up my computer again, it will happen all over again. It seemed to start when I first put in the dru500a drive. It's annoying to have to go through the bios every day, just so it will work. Would updating the bios work? Other than that, I have no idea as to what I should do to fix this.

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

try taking out the dvdwriter?
do you have the raid version? (fast trak makes me think this....im not sure if its part of an onboard ide controller or a raid controller...if you have raid disable that via jumper i think)

 

[ragear]

I do have the raid version and I'm pretty sure raid is disabled. It worked fine before I put the dru500a drive in, so i don't think it has anything to do with raid... when I first had this problem, it happened even when the dru500a drive wasn't connected. I'm going to try updating the bios, since i never did that.

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

good idea
it sometimes solves weird anomalies liek that

 

[ragear]

Well I wanted to look around a bit before I updated the bios, so I found that it has something to do with the promise raid controller. I disabled raid, but is there anything else that would need to be disabled?

 

[ragear]

Well I think i've fixed it by just putting the dvd drive on one of the promise ide channels... but everytime i boot up, it still scans the ide drives, then instead of failing, it asks me if i want to go into the fastbuild utility or continue booting. When I go into the fastbuild utility, it doesn't let me do anything since i put my dvd drive on the promise ide channel. I enabled raid... since it's a dvd drive though (and not a hard drive), should i disable raid?

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

put the hd on the raid controller and leave the dvd as master on primary, and liteon as master on secondary

 

[ragear]

Alright, thanks for the help

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

np
glad it worked out for ya