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| 325705 | 2005-02-16 21:19:00 | G'day all just got back from overseas and am building a new comp with parts i bought from there. I am currently having a problem when I am booting up. I am using a SATA drive, a PATA drive with SATA adaptor(currently not connected), and 2x DVD drives. when i boot up it recognises my two DVD drives as Primary and Secondary IDE0 drives. and my SATA drive as secondary IDE1, which i find strange as it is not connected to any IDE. Can somebody please help with this problem?? Also, with the power connectors, am I able to join one to another? ie. my fan has a double tip, so can i hook the one from the PSU to my fan, then hook up the DVD drive to the other tip coming from the fan? thanks for your help fatty |
fatty (6649) | ||
| 325706 | 2005-02-16 21:26:00 | What OS is installed?? And is SATA onboard (on the motherboard)?? And what motherboard is this system on?? Brand/model?? I take it, whatever OS u have is on the SATA?? The power connection should be fine. Altho, I would plug the fan onto the mobo fan connection, if it has one. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 325707 | 2005-02-16 21:29:00 | its new, i am yet to install an OS. My motherboard is gigabyte 915P. and the sata drive is hooked up to the motherboard if thast wat you mean by on it? | fatty (6649) | ||
| 325708 | 2005-02-16 21:34:00 | In your BIOS you may find the SATA drive has been mapped to an IDE channel. You should be able to change this. | Sb0h (3744) | ||
| 325709 | 2005-02-16 21:39:00 | Some early boards with SATA just had an onboard converter feeding into one of the IDE controllers. If yours is like this it should be explained in manual. | PaulD (232) | ||
| 325710 | 2005-02-16 21:40:00 | OK what OS will u be installing on it, once u get an OS?? Whats the BIOS show?? Does it give u primary/secondary IDE and 3rd and 4th primary as well?? These would be the SATA . And will u be installing an OS on the SATA or the IDE hdd?? I take it with the SATA hdd, u have 2 cables coming from it, the data which is connected to the mobo, and the other, the power, which if the power supply hasnt got a SATA connection on it, you have a SATA power adaptor hooked up to a spare power molex plug?? If both DVD's are on IDE 0 as Master/slave, whats wrong with putting the IDE hdd on IDE 1 as Master?? Instead of connecting it to a SATA connection on the mobo? Maybe it's looking for the IDE hdd on IDE 0?? Since, it'll be expecting to boot off it, if u put an OS on it . Put the DVD's on the secondary IDE connection as Master/slave . Just dont put either of the DVD's on the same IDE connection as the IDE hdd . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 325711 | 2005-02-17 00:53:00 | will be putting windows XP pro on the SATA drive. I hvae solved the problem but now it is reporting only 130gb instead of 170odd in the xp installation and with fdisk can only format 79gb. any other help? thanks | fatty (6649) | ||
| 325712 | 2005-02-17 01:02:00 | Once XP patched to SP1 or is it SP2, you will see the rest (unpartitioned space from Disk Manager, where you can create another partiton | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 325713 | 2005-02-17 01:03:00 | ok so just windows xp error? thanks | fatty (6649) | ||
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