Help! My IDE drive isn't working.

[Guest]

I have a SCSI drive in my computer which I boot up from. However, I'm trying to install a second hard disk which is an IDE drive. Then after installing it, it's doesn't my computer doesn't even boot up anymore. Help!
Thanks in advance,
r.

 

[Guest]

You must set the boot sequence in the bios to SCSI (you can leave floppy drives and cd-roms before the SCSI controller) before any IDE hard drive device whether that's indicated as C,D or Primary IDE master or whatever depending on your bios. Also the majority of bioses will give IDE hard disks priority and assign drive letters to them first before SCSI devices. So your boot disk drive letter will probably change and that will mess up probably quite a few shortcuts at least for a Win9x machine.

***check the jumpers 1st then check em again***

 

[Guest]

I've look at the BIOS and there isn't a "try booting me up in SCSI first" option. At the moment the boot sequence is 1)CD-ROM, 2)Floppy, 3)C: Hard Drive, 4)Network. By the way , it's a Compaq. Any more ideas?
Cheers.

 

[Guest]

call Compaq?

they're not complete idiots.. they may know how to navigate through the bios to set it up the way you need.

is it integrated SCSI or a controller card?

***check the jumpers 1st then check em again***