Startup Says - 'No IDE Master HDD Detected' Hit F1 to Resume - Problem Solved

[nasttcar]

Problem Solved:
Put the Sata drive on a black connector and all is well.


This is part of a new install where I am having trouble getting older 40gb IDE drive and 500gb SATA drive to coexist.

On boot the computer pauses and says 'No IDE Master HDD Detected - Press F1 to Continue'

When I hit F1, WinXP Pro startups off of the drive it said was not detected. When I go to Computer Mgmt, it shows both drives. I run diagnostics on the 40gb drive and it shows it as the Master on the IDE cable and the DVD drive as the slave. The utility says the drive is operating properly.

I am running the latest BIOS for the MB.

I have the 500 gb drive on SATA 4 - which is a data channel.

In the Bios I have JMicron SATA/PATA Controller Enabled, and JMicron SATA Controller Mode set as IDE

If I unplug the SATA drive, then the computer boots up without issue or pauses.

Very baffeling.

Please help.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Couple of ideas for you to check

1. I used the Jmicron driver from the Jmicron website, as I heard it worked better than the one on the mobo CD or asus's website. It has worked well for me, but I have the opposite config. I'm booting from an sata drive and have an older IDE drive for storage, I also have an sata DVD so the storage drive is the only thing on the IDE channel.

2. Check your boot menu in bios to make sure the IDE drive is listed before the sata drive in boot priority.

 

[nasttcar]

Solved the problem.

Did a google search for 'No IDE Master', and saw alot occurences of this issue. Found one that took me to the Asus site and a FAQ.

The solution said to plug my Sata drive into a black connector.

Voila, did the trick, although it sure seems alot slower loading everything up.

I also get a big ASUS screen that says P5B during bootup that I never got before.

I do think I will buy one of those Raptor 150gb 10,000 rpm drives and partition such that WinXP Pro runs off of c:\, and then put all programs on the rest of the drive. I will then put a paging file on 2 separate physical hard drives. Not sure how to do that, but will do research.

Now that all is running. I will let things go for a week or so and then start overclocking.

 

[Paul Madah]

I had a machine i was working on and had driven me crazy because the error message "No IDE Master HDD Detected, Press F1 to continue". The machine is running SATA HDD and had four Sata sockets on the Motherboard, two reds( sata 1, sata 3) and two blacks ( sata 2, sata 4) originally the HDD was connected to sata 2 and the dvd/cd-rom to sata 1.

The original HDD got fried and had to put a new one. Upon re-booting, the error as described above came on the screen.
Anyway to cut the long story shot, my solution was to change the HDD sata cable on the Motherboard to socket (Sata 1) and the dvd/cd-rom to any either socket. Viola!!! my nightmare was gone

Hope this may help somebody!!!