Booting up without IDE drive connected

[Wendy Mott]

My Asus P7H55M mother board needs an IDE Drive connected to boot properly, if not connected it "hangs".. is there any setting to boot without the IDE drive connected.
Regards
Wendy Mott

 

[WyomingKnott]

Hangs where? Can you get to the BIOS?

And do you have a bootable SATA drive attached, or what are you trying to boot from?

 

[Wendy Mott]

Hangs where? Can you get to the BIOS?

And do you have a bootable SATA drive attached, or what are you trying to boot from?

HI. I was booting from the IDE drive... but wanted to remove it as it is becoming.. "old tech"....however after posting the question... I saw a reply from a similar question...I went into the Bios and "Disabled" the IDE drive..........Voila.....Sorted... Many thanks for your trouble.

However... I have another query ref the same board... I am using an Intel i7 processor, and is a 64 bit assembly...is there any way to configure it to 32 bit ??
the reason is that one of my programmes (Musicmatch 9) will not run.. in Windows 7 Home version. It works on a 32bit DELL pc using Win 7, Now here's the daft bit... Musicmatch 7 runs....but is slow.. has a small viewing window, and is a poor substitute.. I have tried running in XP service pack 3 simulation.. it appears to loads but will not run.. I am getting annoyed that I may have to revert to an older board, just to get Musicmatch to run.
Regards
Wendy Mott