Yesterday I got all the parts to my new machine:
Lian-Li PC-7, P4 3GHz LGA775 530J, 120GB Seagate SATA, ECS PF4 MB, Chaintech Geforce 6600GT, 1GB DDR2 PC2-4200, NEC IDE DVD +/-RW.
I was able to salvage (2) older IDE HDs & a Creative Audigy card from my old machine.
Carefully put everything together, held my breath, crossed my fingers, said a prayer, and turned it on. RAM works. Vid card works. Fans work. IDE DVD-R works. IDE & SATA HDs (1 SATA, 2 IDE) work.
BUT, only one of the IDE connectors on the MB works "properly". I mean, If I plug either the DVD-R or the two IDE HDs into one IDE connector they appear when the computer posts, but if I plug them into the other IDE connector they don't. It is always the same connector that doesn't work, if I wasn't clear.
However, there is a brief screen that comes up after POST that describes the RAID array (and asks me if I want to create one) that shows primary & slave/ secondary & slave devices, and that always shows the IDE drives that DON'T appear in POST. So, for instance, if I have the IDE HDs plugged into the connector that allows them to show up in POST and the DVD-R plugged into the other IDE connector, the DVD-R will appear in the RAID screen.
At first I thought that one of my IDE ports was bad, but once I realized that the RAID setup was seeing it I figured that there must be some setting in the BIOS that is screwing things up. I spent, like, two hours flipping one BIOS setting at a time (with the MB manual in front of me) and while I was able to get my SATA HD working, I could not get both IDE channels to operate correctly.
So, WTF? Is there anything you can do to help?
UPDATE: I did just find out in the MB specs that it has "(1) ATA133 compliant port from ICH6/R, and (1) ATA133 compliant port from SiS180" Sounds like each port is controlled by seperate chips? Will the SiS180 only work in a RAID array?
Lian-Li PC-7, P4 3GHz LGA775 530J, 120GB Seagate SATA, ECS PF4 MB, Chaintech Geforce 6600GT, 1GB DDR2 PC2-4200, NEC IDE DVD +/-RW.
I was able to salvage (2) older IDE HDs & a Creative Audigy card from my old machine.
Carefully put everything together, held my breath, crossed my fingers, said a prayer, and turned it on. RAM works. Vid card works. Fans work. IDE DVD-R works. IDE & SATA HDs (1 SATA, 2 IDE) work.
BUT, only one of the IDE connectors on the MB works "properly". I mean, If I plug either the DVD-R or the two IDE HDs into one IDE connector they appear when the computer posts, but if I plug them into the other IDE connector they don't. It is always the same connector that doesn't work, if I wasn't clear.
However, there is a brief screen that comes up after POST that describes the RAID array (and asks me if I want to create one) that shows primary & slave/ secondary & slave devices, and that always shows the IDE drives that DON'T appear in POST. So, for instance, if I have the IDE HDs plugged into the connector that allows them to show up in POST and the DVD-R plugged into the other IDE connector, the DVD-R will appear in the RAID screen.
At first I thought that one of my IDE ports was bad, but once I realized that the RAID setup was seeing it I figured that there must be some setting in the BIOS that is screwing things up. I spent, like, two hours flipping one BIOS setting at a time (with the MB manual in front of me) and while I was able to get my SATA HD working, I could not get both IDE channels to operate correctly.
So, WTF? Is there anything you can do to help?
UPDATE: I did just find out in the MB specs that it has "(1) ATA133 compliant port from ICH6/R, and (1) ATA133 compliant port from SiS180" Sounds like each port is controlled by seperate chips? Will the SiS180 only work in a RAID array?
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