Boot Problems

[jublee]

Hi,

I hope someone can offer me some advice to my problem,

When i connect a 2nd hard drive to my system set it as slave, it gets to the ram count/detect drives screen, detects my current HD the 2nd HD and my dvdrw then stops, won't go any further.

My HD is set as master 32heads......on this motherboard it has no detect HD method so i have to plug and hope.

Any advice appreciated

Thanks

[johnnyis42]

just to verify, you have the hard drives both on the same cable, correct?

[jublee]

Yeah both Hard Drives are on the same cable

[crossedup]

Is one or both a western digital? They are bad for not playing together well, especially with others. You might want to try CS with them both on the same cable if they are WD's, generally works better.

If not, disregard this or try it anyway.

[jublee]

I know my 2nd HD is a WD, not sure about my master, will try Cable Select and see what happens

Cheers

[johnnyis42]

FYI, western digital has 2 different master settings: one is master with slave present, and the other is master single drive. if you had the original one int here by itself and it is western digital, and you didn't change the jumper at all when you added the slave, there is your problem.

if the original drive is a maxtor, and there is not a pin key diagram ont he drive, definitely check online with the exact part number of the drive for the correct settings.... the drives that are 60 gig or less have various settings depending on the drive controller they used, kind of a hold over from when they bought out quantum.