P4C800-E BIOS Flaky?

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I've been dealing with my new P4C800E Deluxe mbo for about a week and a
half, setting up a dual-boot system, learning the intracies of S-ATA,
flashing to ver. 1019, etc. etc.

I boot both OS's from an 80-gig WD S-ATA drive. On the primary IDE
channel I have two physical WD hard disk drives. On the secondary IDE
channel I have a Plextor DVD-RW +RW (master) and a Pioneer DVD-RW (slave).

Early on I discovered that when I set the BIOS to boot from the Plextor,
it wouldn't work. It was as though the Plextor wasn't there. But I
could set BIOS to boot from the Pioneer and things worked fine. I've
been doing it that way for a week.

Now tonight I tried to boot from the Pioneer and the BIOS just skipped
over the drive every time. When I checked the BIOS I saw that no slave
drive was found on the secondary IDE channel. In BIOS I highlighted the
empty spot where the Pioneer should have been and hit return and voila,
the system found a "new" drive. Please reboot, it said.

So I rebooted and the computer still wouldn't boot from the Pioneer. So
I went back to BIOS and set the Plextor to be the boot CD drive. Never
worked before, but it's working now.

Weird. Flaky. Or am I missing something?

Bill Anderson

 

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> So I rebooted and the computer still wouldn't boot from the Pioneer. So
> I went back to BIOS and set the Plextor to be the boot CD drive. Never
> worked before, but it's working now.

Using "CS" as the designation for your drives (Cable select) instead of
Master/Slave?

Bad cables

???

Just a guess.

 

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Noozer wrote:
>>So I rebooted and the computer still wouldn't boot from the Pioneer. So
>>I went back to BIOS and set the Plextor to be the boot CD drive. Never
>>worked before, but it's working now.
>
>
> Using "CS" as the designation for your drives (Cable select) instead of
> Master/Slave?

Nope.

>
> Bad cables

Possibly. I'm using the new cable that came with the Plextor drive.
It's standard IDE. I'll try a cable-select cable and see if that makes
a difference. Thanks!

Bill Anderson

 

[john]

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Try a different IDE cable


"Bill Anderson" <billanderson601@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:nN6dnQ2EAJ3qhj3cRVn-pw@rcn.net...
> I've been dealing with my new P4C800E Deluxe mbo for about a week and a
> half, setting up a dual-boot system, learning the intracies of S-ATA,
> flashing to ver. 1019, etc. etc.
>
> I boot both OS's from an 80-gig WD S-ATA drive. On the primary IDE
> channel I have two physical WD hard disk drives. On the secondary IDE
> channel I have a Plextor DVD-RW +RW (master) and a Pioneer DVD-RW (slave).
>
> Early on I discovered that when I set the BIOS to boot from the Plextor,
> it wouldn't work. It was as though the Plextor wasn't there. But I
> could set BIOS to boot from the Pioneer and things worked fine. I've
> been doing it that way for a week.
>
> Now tonight I tried to boot from the Pioneer and the BIOS just skipped
> over the drive every time. When I checked the BIOS I saw that no slave
> drive was found on the secondary IDE channel. In BIOS I highlighted the
> empty spot where the Pioneer should have been and hit return and voila,
> the system found a "new" drive. Please reboot, it said.
>
> So I rebooted and the computer still wouldn't boot from the Pioneer. So
> I went back to BIOS and set the Plextor to be the boot CD drive. Never
> worked before, but it's working now.
>
> Weird. Flaky. Or am I missing something?
>
> Bill Anderson

 

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John wrote:
> Try a different IDE cable
>
>
I shall. Thanks for the suggestion.

Bill Anderson