having a total nightmare getting my new build working plz help me ?

jamieuk23

jamieuk23

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Hi ok when I say new build some one else built my PC for me. my PC arrived with 1 hard drive installed with windows XP me on it so It was up to me to fit my hard drives and DVD writers...

Ok I will try and keep this short and sweet.. I fitted the exta hard drive to my PC and 2 x DVD writers making sure the hard drive was set to master and the writer to slave on both IDE cables and all seemed good.

A bout a hour of working a way on my PC I noticed that 1 of my hard drives and DVD writer on the same IDE ribbon wernt booting up for some reason as they werent showing in "my computer".

Now I have played around mixing the drives around and setting the drives to slave for about 7 hours and just cant seem to get them booting up.

To give you some more information.. the motherboard I am using is ASUS P5W DH Deluxe. as you will no dout no there is 2 IDE inputs on this motherboard for you to attach IDE ribon cables. 1 cable boots up anything I throw at it were as the other cable wont boot anything up so it seems like that is what the problem us here.

is there any little jumper any were that maybe I pulled out that can casue 1 of the IDE ribon cables to stop working in any way ???

Totaly lost here ! Any help is aprecaited ! ;)
 
ns400r said:
Check the bios. It's possible to disable either IDE channel in the bios.
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I will have a look mate but I havent played round with the bios and it did work at some point. any idea what option I should be looking in there ??

the guy who built it for me has overclocked my PC and saved all settings in the bios. so could do with no what exactly I should be looking fo rin there so I dont mess things up

;)
 
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uve got the mauel so have a flick through at the ide section, i know on my vannila version the ide is a rite pain up the back-side. im getting rid off all ide. sata hdd now, and sata dvd-rw in post
 
The IDE connection on the side is fed from the Intel ICH7 chip and works a treat. The bottom IDE connection is fed from the very dodgy Jmicron controller, which must be turned on in the bios and will probably need a driver as well. Have you tried installing the Jmicron controller driver from the CD? Does your board have the newest bios? as there have been updates for the Jmicron controller here to.

You might want to save yourself some trouble by selling your IDE hard drives and replacing them with SATA ones. Then you can use the intel based IDE connection for your optical drives and SATA for your hard drives.
 
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Jay_t said:
The IDE connection on the side is fed from the Intel ICH7 chip and works a treat. The bottom IDE connection is fed from the very dodgy Jmicron controller, which must be turned on in the bios and will probably need a driver as well. Have you tried installing the Jmicron controller driver from the CD? Does your board have the newest bios? as there have been updates for the Jmicron controller here to.

You might want to save yourself some trouble by selling your IDE hard drives and replacing them with SATA ones. Then you can use the intel based IDE connection for your optical drives and SATA for your hard drives.
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thanks for all that info mate. when I first got my PC i kept on getting a error message from Jmicron saying it needed to close etc.. this now explains why my hard drives have been failing all the time.

I actualy disabled Jmicron in device manager from reading another thread on the net of stopping the error message when I first got my PC so this explains the reason why I cant get anything to boot from it. does this Jmicron controle the USB ports on my PC as well as had a few problems with them to ?

Ok I have just gone in to device manager and enabled it and My suddenly my PC crashed to the famouse blue memroy dump screen. I do have the drivers for this on my asus motherboard CD. so my ? is whats the safest way to get this working again ???

thanks for help !
 
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