Soldato
by beast i mean BIOS !..
right heres the crack.
i have one SATA HDD, 2 IDE HDDs and one DVD drive
windows in on the SATA, and the 2 IDEs contaion doccuments and music etc
i cannot fo for the life of me get all 3 HDDs working at the same time, so have ever only had one SATA and one IDE running.
today i ventured into soem vable managment, this means that i HAVE to have the DVD on a seperate IDE cable to the HDD. it just doesnt work.
ive tinkered with tons of settings in the bios but just cannot figure it out.
heres how its connected:
SATA 1 ---------> SATA HDD
PRI_IDE ------------>IDE HDD
PRI_EIDE-----------> DVD
what happens if i boot with ^^^^ that setup is windowes starts, but i have no DVD drive in my computer.
if i try other combinations i get an arror at boot 'no NTDL' ( or something?)
heres the maual for the mainboard, page 32 has the layout on it
http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/P5WD2-E Premium/e2385_p5wd2-e_pr.pdf
Rick
right heres the crack.
i have one SATA HDD, 2 IDE HDDs and one DVD drive
windows in on the SATA, and the 2 IDEs contaion doccuments and music etc
i cannot fo for the life of me get all 3 HDDs working at the same time, so have ever only had one SATA and one IDE running.
today i ventured into soem vable managment, this means that i HAVE to have the DVD on a seperate IDE cable to the HDD. it just doesnt work.
ive tinkered with tons of settings in the bios but just cannot figure it out.
heres how its connected:
SATA 1 ---------> SATA HDD
PRI_IDE ------------>IDE HDD
PRI_EIDE-----------> DVD
what happens if i boot with ^^^^ that setup is windowes starts, but i have no DVD drive in my computer.
if i try other combinations i get an arror at boot 'no NTDL' ( or something?)
heres the maual for the mainboard, page 32 has the layout on it
http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/P5WD2-E Premium/e2385_p5wd2-e_pr.pdf
Rick
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