P5Q Pro wont recognize IDE HDD

[TampaxFlorida]

I have a P5q pro, running Beta Win7 last build using Seagate Sata Drive pluged into Sata Port 1 - wanted to retriee some old files from a Seagate 500gb drive - plugged it into the EIDE bus and it came up loud and clear. I was able to write to both SATA and IDE drives - Even renamed the old drive to OLD. Guess what - turned the machine off and on agian and no more IDE drive. Looking for a solution now.

 

[stinger4367]

Hey all - only solution I've found is to use a SATA hard drive. I tried 3 windows operating systems on 4 IDE hard drives, they would all install then refuse to get past initial load screen on the very next boot. Judging by forums i looked at to try and fix this, I can tell you 3 things:

1) The marvel IDE controller seems incapable of running an OS on the IDE connection
2) SATA hard drives have no problem and work quite well with this MoBo
3) The IDE issue is widespread enough the ASUS knows about it, but they aren't educating their IT people about it...

Yeah, you can try flashing and updating bios and hoping you get it fixed... and possibly jack up your motherboard. I recommend getting the cheapest SATA hard drive you can live with - it's an easy and effective fix.

P.S. - I'm an aerospace engineer. Yeah, rocket science. It took me, a computer science major and two electrical engineers (not to mention all the people I called at ASUS, Micro$oft, etc.) two weeks of bashing our heads on this before I gave in and bought a SATA drive. Save yourself the trouble.

OMG Thank You, Thank You ,Thank You!!!!! I have been trying to put an old IDE in for a week for Windows 7 or 8 and got nothing,So I turned to "The Great Google" and after an hour of reading I finally found the "TRUTH". It took a rocket scientist to tell me "they" don't want us to use our old drives but make us buy new ones constantly!!!! Again thank you for your time and being in the right mind to post a final answer!!!!