SATA and IDE hard drive on MSI K8N NEO2

[Icepick]

I built a system two months ago using a SATA hard drive. I was able to install Windows XP Pro on the SATA drive and up until now it's been the only one I've used. Now I want to connect my old IDE hard drive and use it as a secondary. The problem is that when I connect it to the motherboard I seem to lock up right after it POSTS. It gets to the gray "Platinum" screen then locks up and will not go any further. It won't let me enter BIOS at this point either. When I disconnect the hard drive (or simply remove power to it) the PC boots and Windows loads just fine.

Does anyone know what I need to do to use the IDE drive as a secondary? Is it even possible?

 

[Icepick]

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[canadianpsycho]

How old is the drive? How is it jumpered?

I'm only using optical drives on my IDE channels, but is it possible you have the wrong boot sequence set up in your BIOS? Maybe its trying to boot from the IDE drive instead of the SATA one.

Hook up the IDE drive and see if you can get into the BIOS. Are you sure the IDE drive is in good working order?

 

[LED]

Also check to make sure the IDE is hooked up correctly (ATA100/133 (cable) Blue end to MoBo and jumpers are set right on the HD

 

[imported_qweds]

Just going to try and steal this thread...

I have a MSI Neo2 w/ a64 3000+ 512mb ballistix 2 optical drives, 1 WD IDE 80gb, 1 Seagate SATA 160 gb.

I am currently on the windows install on my IDE drive. I am trying to install windows on the SATA drive but everytime, and i've tried all different drivers, no drivers, quick format, long format, Sata 1 and Sata 3, -- after the first restart for xp install it says "error loading os" or something very similar.

I've enabled and disabled SATA 1/2 while on 3 and vice versa. I've enabled and disabled sata dma transfer. Enabled and disabled raid.

I'm using official bios 1.4. I was thinking of trying the 1.41 bios, but just thought I'd ask to see if I'm missing something. My apologies for repeating this thread but I just can't seem to make it work.

Thanks

 

[GroundedSailor]

Originally posted by: icepik
I built a system two months ago using a SATA hard drive. I was able to install Windows XP Pro on the SATA drive and up until now it's been the only one I've used. Now I want to connect my old IDE hard drive and use it as a secondary. The problem is that when I connect it to the motherboard I seem to lock up right after it POSTS. It gets to the gray "Platinum" screen then locks up and will not go any further. It won't let me enter BIOS at this point either. When I disconnect the hard drive (or simply remove power to it) the PC boots and Windows loads just fine.

Does anyone know what I need to do to use the IDE drive as a secondary? Is it even possible?

It is possible that the Access mode of your primary IDE hard disk is set to auto (Go to your standard CMOS features in bios). That might prevent larger hard disks from being recognized. Change that to LBA and see if that helps.

I had that problem with the Abit AV8 motherboard. Would not go past the initial screen till I changed the primary IDE access mode to LBA. EDIT: Ignore that bit - that was a different problem. I got confused. With the K8N Neo2 Plat I installed windows and then on the next reboot it was "error loading os" till I changed the access mode.

qweds that might be your problem too.

Hope this helps

 

[L00PY]

icepik: Have you double checked the boot order settings in the BIOS?

qweds: Have you run generic HD diagnostics (try Seagate's first)? You're not overclocking, right? You've read through google results?

 

[hoang101]

How are you doing with that? I got almost the same problem and not able to figure out yet:

How do you enable SATA on your motherboard? (848P-A Bios V6.00PG)
Bios Id: 12/30/2003-848P-ICH5-6A79AE19C

I install the Sata drive, system recognized but dont boot up on that
drive unless I disable the IDE drive, I did go to Bios and changed:

1.- Intergrated Peripheral-->Onchip IDE device-->On-chip ATA (Auto-Enhance-Sata)
2.- Advance Bios Features-->harddisk boot priority-->select the sata
drive as boot nr#1

Did I missed out anything on the setup? ... PN

 

[hoang101]

I got mine fixed, I dont know how and it's not supposed to be - but it work and that's all I care for now. After do all the steps I discribe above over and over with no success, I put the Power Max floppy on the drive and boot up, and I go to all the check, expcept for Low Level Formats, and reboot then Voila now I can boot up with the HDD of my choice...Anyone care to explain that?

 

[Icepick]

This problem is finally fixed. I had my Western Digital IDE drive connected to an IDE cable as master with no slave device. Someone over on the MSI forum told me that for this to work I had to remove the jumper from the drive. Now it works fine.