asus p4s533 ide problems

[astralwerks]

I recently purchased this board and I can't get the secondary ide to work with anything. I have a maxtor 80 gig on the primary ide and on the secondary I have a lite-on 16x dvdrom and a pioneer a03 dvdrw. I am using crucial 512mb 2700 ddr ram and everything posts fine I just can't get it to recognize the two dvd drives. When I just unplug the hard drive and use the cable from the dvd drives in the primary they are recognized so it's not a cable problem. Is there some jumper I'm missing or something in the bios that will make this work or is this a dead board. I bought the thing 2 days ago and I always use anti-static wrist guards to assemble. Any thoughts or help would be appricated.

Thanks

 

[Budman]

yes there are jumpers on the drives,and you also must connect it in the correct order to have speeds above ata33.

Blue goes to mobo,grey goes to slave & black goes to master.

 

[astralwerks]

i meant jumpers on the mb, I have the correct jumpers on the drives, the dvdrw is set to master and teh dvdrom is set to slave and the cables are hooked up correctly, I did mention when i switched the cable to the primary ide it was recognized, I just cant get anything to work on my secondary ide.

Thanks

 

[paralazarguer]

I have this board and it's absolutely great for me. Never a problem and OCs like a dream. If it is recognized in the BIOS and not windows then it's a software issue.
What I have seen quite common in windows XP is that if you uninstall the secondary ide controller, it will not come back thus no devices on it. I bet this is what's happened in your case. What you should do is go into device manager and uninstall the primary IDE channel also. If you do this, it will force both channels to be reinstalled.
Good luck.

 

[astralwerks]

No i'm building a new system, it is straight out of the box and only installed today, It is on factory settings and it won't recognize the secondary ide. I don't ahve anythin installed because I can't get the dvd drives recognized. I am basically wondering if all of you people think its a bad ide port and I should send it back or take it to a specialty shop and have them look at it?

Any thoughts?

Thanks

 

[ROJAS]

astralwerks: Months ago, I had this same problem with the secondary ide not working. I tried to reinstall the ide controller and no luck. I was running Win Xp, the secondary ide was working and then one day it went away. I sent the m.b. back and they sent me a replacement "new" motherboard. I had the same problem. I then formatted the hard drive and installed Win Xp and all my problems went away.

ROJAS

 

[astralwerks]

Its a brand new hard drive, nothing has ever been put on it. My problem is that I can't get the bios to recognize it.

 

[astralwerks]

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[OneOfTheseDays]

The problem with secondary ide ports failing and primary ide ports failing is due to incorrect front USB header connections. Disconnect your front USB ports because you have most likely wired them incorrectly to your motherboard. Disabling USB in the bios is not enough, you must disconnect those ports. Go to asusboards for additional information. Next time do a search and you'll be surprised by what you can find. Most of the time any question you have has already been asked.

 

[astralwerks]

thank you I'll look into that and report what I find out.