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IDE Drive not showing up

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DK10

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Just put a new system together and it has 3 IDE drives in it and a SATA system drive.

No matter what I try I can only get 2 of the IDE drives to work at the same time. All work fine but as soon as I try to boot with all 3 the PC locks at the bios screen. And it doesn't matter if they are split on 2 cables or on one, only 2 work at once.

I remember seeing this problem on a friend's PC a few months ago and it took us a while to figure it out but i think it had something to do with raid drivers.

So any suggestions or tips on how to get this working?


Currently Running

XP SP2

AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Orleans 2.4GHz Socket AM2
ASUS M2NPV-VM Socket AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6150 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
eVGA 256-P2-N554-AX Geforce 7600GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16

System Drive
Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD 80GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s

Storage Drives
250 Seagate
250 Hitachi
320 WD


Thanks for the help
 
I'll bet that its the WD IDE drive thats causing the problem. WD has some strange jumper settings, there is master with no slave, master with slave and so on. Though if its a plain slave I dont see why it should be a problem - so check put your BIOS settings carefully with the mobo manual open in front of you.
 
the thing is if i have all 3 hooked up, i cant even get into bios. it gets to the bios boot screen and if i hit del it says loading bios and locks up and if i jsut try to boot it just hangs at the bios screen.
 
Do you have any IDE CD-Rom drives?

Perhaps try this, try putting the two drives on the first IDE channel with each drive being set to a) master and then b) slave. Then for the secondary IDE cable make the hard drive a master and then slave your CD-Rom drive.

It's highly likely that it's doing this due to the jumpers.
 
First figure out which two IDE hds work, once we know which particular hd is causing the lockup then we can suggest workarounds. If any random 2 hd combination works, then I am stumped and can only suggest trying out ide controller card.
 
i have a dvd drive, but its not hooked upp at the moment. so its not in the equation. and should i be setting ide as a master if i have a SATA as the master drive with my os on it? would that confuse the board?
 
it worked. setting one of them to master fixed it. i figured since none were the os drive they shouldnt be masters. thanks guys
 
With SATA drives there is no master/slave. It is on its own channel no matter what. With IDE drives though, you still need to correctly place the jumper. As you stated, having all three on slave is probably what caused the problem. I'm glad you got it fixed. Have a good weekend and merry Christmas.
 
DK10:

Sorry to dig up an old post, but you seem to have missed the point. It has nothing to do with which drive you decide to install the OS onto.

Like Nocturnal said, each IDE channel (each IDE connector on your motherboard is an IDE channel, hence you have two of them) can have two attached devices. One of them must be a "master" drive, and the other a "slave." If you set two drives on the same channel both to slave, your BIOS will see neither of those drives. If you set both drives to "master," your BIOS might see one of them, and so on and so forth.
 
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