Gigabyte SG667 Seconday IDE Drives are not detected?!?

[OGHowie]

Does anyone know why the DVD and CDR drives I have connected to my new SG667 mobo will not work? I have tried both drives on another system and they work perfectly and I have also tried 3 different IDE cables. However, the SG667 never detects the cd rom drives on the secondary IDE. This is already my second SG667, because the previous mobo had the same problem and this is the replacement from Newegg.com. Tell me I didn't just get 2 bad mobos with the same exact problems?!?! I'm pretty sure that isn't the case and that there should be a solution to this. Thanks for your help.

 

[THUGSROOK]

USB conflict

 

[BubbaJudge]

what OS are you running?

I installed the mobo on a dual boot win98se/winXP and the XP runs fine, the Win 98se cant find the secondary IDE(CDRom/CDRW) because SIS doesnt have an IDE driver for the chipset to run in Win 98. I have checked SIS and other vendors websites for a driver, some claim they have a win 98 IDE driver, but when you open the exe there is nothing for Win 98 and when you try to install, nothing is installed.

 

[OGHowie]

USB conflict? So that would mean.....? I tried disabiling the USB Controller in BIOS and restarting but it still does not detect.

I am running WinXP so everything should be fine. However, since I just switched to this new mobo, I haven't been able to reinstall the OS so the OS currently has the drivers from the GA-8IEXP mobo I had. Could this be the problem?

 

[Maverick]

make sure you set up the Master slave jumpers on the drive. Cable select jumper didn't work for me.

 

[OGHowie]

Yup, DVD is set as master and CDRW is set as slave.

Thanks for all the help so far people. Next!

 

[Maverick]

I sorta split mine up...HD primary master, DVD primary slave, CDRW secondary master, HD #2 secondary slave. I had some trouble getting it all working too but the jumper settings fixed it.

 

[o1die]

It's also possible you have a bad cable going to the hardrive or 4 pin connector off the power supply. I had a 4 pin connector fail recently, and I thought my IBM hardrive was toast. But on a hunch, I switched to a different 4 pin lead off the ps, and it worked fine. Also, be sure the blue side of the cable is atached to the mobo, and the other end to the hardrive. Easy mistake to make.

 

[Oakenfold]

Originally posted by: OGHowie
USB conflict? So that would mean.....? I tried disabiling the USB Controller in BIOS and restarting but it still does not detect.

I am running WinXP so everything should be fine. However, since I just switched to this new mobo, I haven't been able to reinstall the OS so the OS currently has the drivers from the GA-8IEXP mobo I had. Could this be the problem?

You did a quick and dirty install?
I'd start with a fresh format.

 

[OGHowie]

Oldie, check, check, and check.

Oakenfold, just did a fresh XP install. Still undetected. It shouldn't be an OS problem because it's the bios that's not recognizing right?

Sigh. Maybe I should just return this to newegg again and get something else. It's been frustrating to say the least.

 

[Oakenfold]

Hold on, thought you were doing something else there. Saw thug's post and thought they weren't detected in Windoze. Heh,
You say they aren't detected in the bios?
Have you played with the jumpers to other settings than master/slave?
There should be one for single drive and cable select.
Try the single drive one.

I've had hard drives that will not recognize on the correct jumper settings, either that or it was just really late and had the jumper setting dyslexiated in my mind.

What specifically are you trying to setup?
You say DVD and CDR drives...

Also when you go into standard what do you have selected AUTO or USER?

Hmm looks like they say manual...what are they set to and have you tried auto detecting?

 

[THUGSROOK]

unplug all USB ports from the moboard and disable all USB from bios.
also disable USB legacy support in bios.

HTH

 

[OGHowie]

THANKS SO MUCH THUGSROOK! That did it.

Thanks again for everyone's input.

 

[THUGSROOK]

i know it did

youre welcome

 

[JEFF68005]

Originally posted by: THUGSROOK
unplug all USB ports from the moboard and disable all USB from bios.
also disable USB legacy support in bios.

HTH

Thanks for the heads up guys. I'll wait for the board revision. I saw a post that it is up to F3 bios. Lookover the BIOS updates for details.

I was going to say check the settings that the second IDE was enabled ......