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My P5B (not the P5B Deluxe) board supports my new quad-core, but I get the (now famous) Intel Microcode Error upon boot. Currently the mobo has v0211 of the AMI BIOS and the Asus website starts at v0509 for new flashing but that seems like quite the jump, especially since there are note saying...

The answer given works for both SATA and for IDE. The cap is to set the drive on either "DVR Mode" or "PC Mode". I'm running a 250 GB Quickview SATA-2 drive in my PC right now that I got from a DVR.

You will need to change the jumper cap so it covers the two pins on the right instead of the pins on the left on the back of the drive. Once that's done, your PC should be able to see it. By default, if it came from a DVR/PVR it will likely be formatted EXT2 or EXT3 for use in Linux, however...