EIDE Problem.

[desfam1]

Hello ALL,

I have installed a HD as primary master and a CDROM as primary slave. I set the jumpers per instructions on both HD & CDROM. I looked in the BIOS and under IDE configuration it correctly shows WD800JB as primary master and 56X CDROM as primary slave. In the BIOS I set the Boot Priority to CDROM. When I reboot, the computer refuses to boot from the CDROM. I put the Datalifeguard tools CD in and I looked at the setup disk utility and it has one Motherboard tab and under that it only shows the HD WD800JB the primary slave is shown OPEN. This conflicts with the BIOS which shows both. Which is correct, and what is the solution. (I have a MV850 Intel MB) Please advise & Thanks

JIM

 

[amdskip]

Hook the cdrom up to the secondary channel and see what it registers as. I bet you have something misjumpered or something.

 

[desfam1]

That was a good idea but..

I set the CDROM jumper to MASTER and hooked it up via a separate ribbon cable to the secondary IDE. It shows up in the Bios and in datalifeguard as Secondary Master 56X CDROM. I also set up the Bios to boot up from the CDROM first. I put in my brand new off the shelf Windows XP disk. Now I get the error message

Batch File X:\L.Bat missing

I know there is nothing wrong with the windows XP disk, because it was sealed.

 

[FlyingPenguin]

Do you have the WD Drive jumpered correctly? WD drives are annoying - they have two seperate jumper settings for master: single master, and master with slave. Set it wrong and it pretty much renders the IDE bus useless.

On a modern mobo all IDE devices should be jumpered for CS (Cable Select). Less issues. Some mobos won't even recognize a drive unless it's jumpered CD (most Dells are like that).

Hope this helps...

 

[birdpup]

Have you searched for "L.Bat missing". I received one result from Google and the person believes it is due to a defective memory module.