I have a new this year PC based on a ECS MB with a AMI BIOS. It has two SATA channels and a single IDE channel. The DVD is IDE and the boot drive is SATA. If I put a IDE HD on the cable with the DVD, the PC tries to boot from the IDE HD even though it has no OS. It then hangs at boot saying hal.dll is missing and to reinstall it.
My BIOS has four boot choices, the first is set to the SATA HD, the second to the IDE DVD, the third and fourth are explicitly set to none.
If I remove the IDE HD, the PC boots just fine from the SATA HD and all is well. Because the IDE HD is in a removable rack, I can install it after boot and it works too. However, it cannot be present during boot.
FWIW, the IDE HD is on master, the DVD on slave. I don't want to change this order, else the IDE HD won't work in other PC's.
Any solutions?
Thanks
My BIOS has four boot choices, the first is set to the SATA HD, the second to the IDE DVD, the third and fourth are explicitly set to none.
If I remove the IDE HD, the PC boots just fine from the SATA HD and all is well. Because the IDE HD is in a removable rack, I can install it after boot and it works too. However, it cannot be present during boot.
FWIW, the IDE HD is on master, the DVD on slave. I don't want to change this order, else the IDE HD won't work in other PC's.
Any solutions?
Thanks
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