problem booting from SATA drive when IDE drive is installed

[imported_RufusTFirefly]

I apologize if this is a really dumb question, but I'm a relative newbie to these things.

My computer has the Neo2 Platinum socket 939 motherboard. It originally had just a SATA hard drive. When I installed a second hard drive, an IDE one, the computer refused to boot to the SATA hard drive, on which Windows was installed. This happened regardless of the hard disk boot order I set in the BIOS. Removing the IDE hard drive and disabling it in the BIOS both allowed me to boot once again to the SATA drive.

Does anyone know how to fix this? I'd like to install Mandrake Linux on this second hard drive.

Thanks

 

[mechBgon]

In the Advanced BIOS Features menu in the BIOS, there's Hard Disk Boot Priority as you probably saw. Besides that, there's the First/Second/Third Boot Device, and unfortunately MSI doesn't say in their manual exactly what the options are for each of those. But maybe there's an SATA option? Could you be so kind as to tell me/us what options are within those First/Second/Third? I'm sure there's Floppy, LS120, CDROM... but what else do they have?

 

[imported_RufusTFirefly]

Thank you so much for your help.

Under Hard Disk Boot Priority, I can order from 1 to 3 my two hard drives and "bootable add-in cards."

Under First/Second/Third Boot Device, I can choose Removable, Hard Disk, CDROM, USB-CDROM, Legacy Lan, NVIDIA Boot Age, or Disabled.

 

[mechBgon]

Hmm It is not logical, Captain.

Ok, here are my two brainstorms.

1) If your SATA drive is on one of the lower pair of SATA drives, try putting it on one of the two that are up above the AGP slot instead.

2) For the heck of it, what happens if... you disable first, second and third boot devices, but then leave Boot Other Device enabled, with the SATA drive selected as the top-priority hard drive?


Hope something works out for you there, I hate seeing mobos leave people stuck like that