i have a MSI G965M mainboard with sata controllers. there is one ide slot (which they call USB to IDE) which i hooked up my optical drives on. I had only one HD connected to one sata port - but found a WD Caviar 250GB IDE drive I purchased some time ago that was somehow packed in a box and forgotten in the garage. The thing about this new drive besides 250GB and 8MB cache, is that it came with an IDE controller card that fits in one of the two PCI slots. (i also just installed a SB Audigy 2 card in the first PCI slot.) I decided to try to install the WD 250GB and connect it to the IDE controller as storage for my digital audio recordings, and as just a back up drive. When I boot-up, windows only asks me for "NEW HARDWARE DRIVERS" for a "PCI INTERFACE" which I believe is part of the soundcard drivers - and NOT the controller card. Even if I attemp to just install the SB drivers on CD, the system hangs and I cannot get the IDE drive to show up. Am I trying to do something that just won't happen?
Thanks for any answers,
Sykohedd
Thanks for any answers,
Sykohedd