Weird IDE drive problem

[SugarTooth]

I just finished building a new system based around an Abit IS7 and a SATA drive. I have my DVD burner on IDE 2 and I'm trying to temporarily add the drive from my old system to IDE 1 so I can copy some stuff over. When I connect the old drive, it's detected during POST and in the BIOS, but after the 'DMI' message the screen just goes black and it's all over. If I boot to the old drive (Win98), everything is fine (though none of the hardware is recognized of course). Any ideas?

 

[Steve]

How is that old drive jumpered? Might want to try a different setting.

 

[mechBgon]

The system is probably trying to boot from the IDE drive. In the Advanced BIOS Features menu in the BIOS, look at the Hard Disk Boot Priority and Bootable Add-In Device items and make it the OnChip SATA, and check out the other settings there to ensure they make sense based on your goal of booting from SATA. Hope that helps

 

[SugarTooth]

sm - I have the drive jumpered to 'cable select' and it's in the master position.

mech - I do have the BIOS set to boot from the SATA drive. When I set it to boot from the old IDE drive, it boots up just fine.

I played around some more and discovered that if I disconnect the optical drive, the SATA drive will boot up and the IDE will show up as a second drive. So the problem seems to occur when both IDE channels are being used. Might I have a bad motherboard?

 

[Slug]

Is the power supply up to speed?

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: SugarTooth
sm - I have the drive jumpered to 'cable select' and it's in the master position.

mech - I do have the BIOS set to boot from the SATA drive. When I set it to boot from the old IDE drive, it boots up just fine.

I played around some more and discovered that if I disconnect the optical drive, the SATA drive will boot up and the IDE will show up as a second drive. So the problem seems to occur when both IDE channels are being used. Might I have a bad motherboard?

Now the fun starts Look at page 2-20 of your manual... which "mode" is in use? Because as you can see, there are modes where one of the IDE channels is basically turned off (called Combined Mode / IDE).

 

[SugarTooth]

Slug - It's a new Antec True430 so it should be ok.

mech - Thanks! I hope it's something that simple. Looking into it...

 

[SugarTooth]

Ok, I think I figured it out (with mech's help). It was in "Auto" mode, which means when the HDD and the DVD drive were connected, it automatically switched into "Enhanced" mode. So, without connecting the HDD, I switched it to "Enhanced" mode and sure enough, same problem - no boot. But I did a search and realized that I had to have IDE Bus Mastering enabled. I guess that should have been obvious...

Thanks mech.