I've been doing tech work and building PC's for over a decade, but I've never quite had this type of issue..
I recently bought an Asus P5P800 - primarily because I liked the mix of old and new options. I paired it with an Intel P4 630 3.0ghz processor with stock cooler.
I was hoping to use an 80-gig P-ATA boot drive with a 120gb data drive - the primary purpose of this system is video capping, processing, and DVD authoring. BUT it won't let me boot from a P-ATA drive. I've double-checked my BIOS settings, and all are at what the manual recommends as default for my WinXP OS. The system will recognize the drive, and it'll boot my XP CD, partition the drive, copy the install files over, and never, ever boot to that drive. I tried setting the BIOS back to defaults (which they were already at with the exception of the boot priority changes I made). Still, no go.
So I borrowed an S-ATA drive from work - it boots to that drive just fine, and lo and behold, once the OS is installed on the S-ATA drive, I can even see and use my P-ATA 80-gig drive!
My setup is as follows:
Thermaltake WU1300j 480watt PS
Asus P5P800 motherboard
Retail Intel P4 630 3.0ghz processor (NO oc'ing)
1gb RAM (matched pairs - 2x256 Micron, 2x256 Crucial, both at 266mhz)
AGP ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500 128mb DDR
P-ATA 80-gig HD
S-ATA 120-gig HD (which will disappear soon - back to work)
32x TDK CDR
4x Lite-On DVDR/RW
3 intake fans (2x40mm, 1x120mm)
1 exhaust fan (1x40mm)
1 PCI-slot blower/exhaust fan (below my videocard)
also note that my PS has dual fans, 1 intake and one exhaust
Ideas, anyone? Any help would be appreciated...
I recently bought an Asus P5P800 - primarily because I liked the mix of old and new options. I paired it with an Intel P4 630 3.0ghz processor with stock cooler.
I was hoping to use an 80-gig P-ATA boot drive with a 120gb data drive - the primary purpose of this system is video capping, processing, and DVD authoring. BUT it won't let me boot from a P-ATA drive. I've double-checked my BIOS settings, and all are at what the manual recommends as default for my WinXP OS. The system will recognize the drive, and it'll boot my XP CD, partition the drive, copy the install files over, and never, ever boot to that drive. I tried setting the BIOS back to defaults (which they were already at with the exception of the boot priority changes I made). Still, no go.
So I borrowed an S-ATA drive from work - it boots to that drive just fine, and lo and behold, once the OS is installed on the S-ATA drive, I can even see and use my P-ATA 80-gig drive!
My setup is as follows:
Thermaltake WU1300j 480watt PS
Asus P5P800 motherboard
Retail Intel P4 630 3.0ghz processor (NO oc'ing)
1gb RAM (matched pairs - 2x256 Micron, 2x256 Crucial, both at 266mhz)
AGP ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500 128mb DDR
P-ATA 80-gig HD
S-ATA 120-gig HD (which will disappear soon - back to work)
32x TDK CDR
4x Lite-On DVDR/RW
3 intake fans (2x40mm, 1x120mm)
1 exhaust fan (1x40mm)
1 PCI-slot blower/exhaust fan (below my videocard)
also note that my PS has dual fans, 1 intake and one exhaust
Ideas, anyone? Any help would be appreciated...
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