Adding SATA driver - won't boot!

Jon12345 · 21 Feb 2008 at 16:08

I have a Asus PK5-E motherboard with an IDE hard drive connected to it and that works fine. Now, I have now connected a SATA drive but it won't boot! It stops early on saying "American Megatrends" which I presume is some logo for the SATA hard drive or something.

Why is that? My IDE drive is set as a master and I have no pins on the SATA drive which is supposed to be for slave setting.

Is it difficult to have one drive on IDE and the other on SATA?

Thanks,

Jon

Jon12345 · 21 Feb 2008 at 21:01

The boot priority is for my IDE drive, then my external usb hard drive and then the SATA drive. I haven't formatted the SATA drive by the way. I am using Win XP.

Any suggestions on what to do now?

Jon12345 · 22 Feb 2008 at 09:25

I have it connected to SATA port 3. Not sure what you mean by how are they configured in the BIOS??

Jon12345 · 22 Feb 2008 at 10:51

I had to add SP2 after installing XP. Why does that make a difference?

The thing is, I don't get prompted for anything when I boot my PC. It just hangs at the American megatrends logo.

Jon12345 · 22 Feb 2008 at 12:06

I removed it from the black SATA slot, plugged it into the red one and voila, it works! Thanks guys for the suggestion.