DS3 - SATA Problems, Wont Boot

jellybeard999 · 6 Sep 2006 at 10:14

I have an IDE DVD-RW and a SATA HDD.

Everything was working fine

Now when i connect the IDE and SATA up, they wont boot past the white text tables that appear before windows boots. I cant boot past that point from CD either (to install windows). If i disconnect the sata, it boots from CD fine. Nothing i can do will get me to boot windows from HDD (i installed them all fine before, now it just doesnt work :/ )

Any ideas ?

Im thinking its gonna be easiest to just get a sata RAID card

Munromax · 6 Sep 2006 at 15:04

Has anything else changed since the time it was working?

Cob · 6 Sep 2006 at 15:08

Are both sets of SATA ports causing problems?

jellybeard999 · 6 Sep 2006 at 16:02

Cob said:
Are both sets of SATA ports causing problems?

yes, both sata cards causing problems, tried using one, disabling the other and visa versa

Nothing changed either

Was just overclocking, crashed, reset to optimised defaults, and no go

Tried both my OCZ and a stick of samsung DDR2 to make sure its not RAM probs

Cob · 6 Sep 2006 at 16:06

Are the drives detected in the BIOS?

jellybeard999 · 6 Sep 2006 at 16:25

Cob said:
Are the drives detected in the BIOS?

yup, all detected at bios no matter what combo i use, so long as ports are enabled obviously

fatty1 · 6 Sep 2006 at 16:37

When you go to re install windows do you press f6 and install your third party raid drivers??
Also have you clocked the system at all??
Maybe you overclock corrupted the original install of windows

si_mats · 7 Sep 2006 at 07:02

I had this exact same problem with a Seagate Barracuda 250GB 7200.8 SATA NCQ drive and NEC 4550A DVD R/W - this was before installing WinXP - drive would be present in BIOS, displayed on POST, everything, but from that point on the drive could not be "seen" or accessed.

I was looking for a quieter life and had removed a 74GB Raptor from the PC and decided to use a quieter but larger single drive. When I plugged the Raptor back in everything worked fine, and the Seagate drive reappeared on the second channel.

Either I've fuggered around with the drive jumpers and forgotten about it (I will check later) or some drives, specifically mine, just don't work on this board.

I'd suggest trying another drive if you can to see if that's the problem, even try different SATA cables perhaps.

Does the drive work if the optical drive is removed? Create a USB boot disk and see if you can access your SATA drive that way.

Sorry I haven't got a "real" solution for you, just relaying my experience.