Hard Drive Configuration

[munruss]

Hello. I have an ASUS MOBO that came equipped with two SATA onboard connectors and one IDE connector. My configuration is as follows:

WD 80GB SATA drive -- primary (operating system)
WD 120GB SATA drive -- secondary (files, mics.)
WD 160GB UATA drive -- (new)

Now, I just bought the WD 160GB and connected it to the onboard IDE connector. The BIOS detected it without a problem. However, the PC will not boot. It seems that the BIOS is looking for a boot sector from that drive. Of course when I disconnect it, all is well.

I tried every jump setting and no jump setting on the 160GB drive. Still nothing.

What am I doing wrong?

Thank you.

 

[munruss]

Bad BIOS. Asus is sending me another one.

 

[BoboKatt]

Stupid question on my end but were you trying to boot from that new hardrive or were you just adding it in to the current HDs you have? It might be that if your mobo was set to search your IDE ports first for a functioning OS andt thus finding and IDE drive finally it would stop there if there was no OS (and drive set to bootable primary when you are formating and partitioning it). I know on my MSI board i have to set the boot sequence and what drive gets "looked" at to boot up. However as you stated if you had a bad bios then this is moot