This is my first post here and I hope someone can help me. I bought and installed the p965t-a and got the computer to power up and even to the point where it starts loading the OS on the hard drive. But I can't get more than one IDE device to work at the same time, and the BIOS doesn't recognize anything as IDE master or slave. It finds the hard drive, but only in the "boot sequence" menus of the BIOS (and there, oddly, as SCSI). I'd like to have a hard drive work and also my CD-ROM drive so that I can install an operating system (since my old one was spread out over several HDs). Can anyone help me? Sorry for being inept.
Stephan
2006-12-27 09:15:53 · 5 answers · asked by stephan370@gmail.com 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
As people have said, check the jumper settings of all your devices. On each IDE channel (cable) there will be a connector half way up the cable and another one right at the very end of the cable. Whatever device is at the end of the cable should be set to Master, and any device half way up should be Slave.
And if you don't know what I mean about jumpers then this is the kind of thing you're looking for:
http://www.hiroinc.com/Harddrive/hd2.jpg
The jumper is a little plastic tab that sits over one of the pairs of pins on any hard drive or CD/DVD drive. There should be a diagram on the back of the drive showing you which pins need to be covered for each setting (master, slave or sometimes 'cable select).
2006-12-27 09:31:05 · answer #1 · answered by Bamba 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have and ECS board but not the same one as yours. check your bios there is a setting for the ide slots where you can enable 1 or both of them.
I noticed on the ECS website that there is an IDE driver available. Did you load them from your motherboards startup disk????
Here is the website where can download all the drivers and manuals and bios updates for your board.
http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Products/Productsdetail.aspx?detailid=666&MenuID=16&LanID=0
2006-12-27 17:22:41 · answer #2 · answered by Get Real 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like you didnt set the jumpers on the devices properly!
2006-12-27 17:18:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
boot sequence should be cdrom then HD0 .... the main bios page should show drives .. look for other bios settings for ide and make sure ur timings are correct ...try loading bios defaults if nothing else ... its somthing in ur bios settup or cabling ...
2006-12-27 17:19:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
did u check the jumper settings on the HDDs
2006-12-27 17:18:06 · answer #5 · answered by ransoft2004 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋