No IDE drive detected Msg (using sata)

megalomanic · 6 Mar 2008 at 12:50

There is probably a very obvious fix to this minor issue, but cant find out how to do it.

running a SATAII drive, but get the 'No ide drive detected' Message at start-up, simply have to press 'F1 to continue' and everythings fine but.. yeah want to turn the message off

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motherboard is Asus M2r32-MVP if it matters.

cheers

helmutcheese · 6 Mar 2008 at 12:53

If you have no use for EIDE devices inc Optical Drives turn the Controlers off in the bios.

If you do use EIDE optical Drives then make the SATA HDD the 1st boot device.

Welcome BTW, and Claimed

megalomanic · 6 Mar 2008 at 14:57

thanks for the reply.

I have had another look around in the bios, i don't think i can turn the controllers off since i'm using a cd/dvd drive (which is also set to my primary ide device (master i think)), nothing is set as my slave device ('not detected'). am i maybe getting confused with IDE and EIDE?
in my boot settings the HDD is set as the first boot device.

also noticed that my hdd is installed as my 4th sata device, not sure if this would matter

helmutcheese · 6 Mar 2008 at 15:01

IDE and EIDE is 1 and the same.

You can turn off Controlers but not if you need for your optical Drives.

You should be able to move the SATA up to 1st boot device in the bios somewhere (aint sure on you layout).

It should not matter but try pluging the SATA HDD you boot to into SATA port 1 instead of 4

bledd · 6 Mar 2008 at 15:08

look under boot options, set sata above ide0

megalomanic · 6 Mar 2008 at 16:11

While looking for sata/ide option under boot i found the option to disable 'Wait for F1 if error occurs'.. :rolleyes:

so thats the message gone and everything appears normal on boot up now, i guess the error is still there but i dont think it'll cause any major issues for now.

thanks again and if any other thoughts arise please post.