i'm not sure if the problem is related to my motherboard or not. I've got 5 HD's in my case.
3 of them are IDE and the other 2 are SATA
and I have one IDE DVD burner
if i try to connect all of them directly into my motherboard, my system will not load up. It will turn on and then recognize all the hard drives are there but right before it starts up windows, it just freezes and i have to restart it.
i put in a sata controller card and an IDE controller card and i connected both of my sata's into the the sata controller card and i have one IDE HD connected into the IDE controller card. And in this particular set up, my computer boots up into windows just fine.
My question is this, does anyone know why i need to have this particular set up instead of just being able to connect all my drives directly into my motherboard without the use of controller cards? I'm definitely going to be buying more HD's in the future and i'm going to hit a limit of being able to add anymore without encountering the same problem again with the boot up process. :?:
3 of them are IDE and the other 2 are SATA
and I have one IDE DVD burner
if i try to connect all of them directly into my motherboard, my system will not load up. It will turn on and then recognize all the hard drives are there but right before it starts up windows, it just freezes and i have to restart it.
i put in a sata controller card and an IDE controller card and i connected both of my sata's into the the sata controller card and i have one IDE HD connected into the IDE controller card. And in this particular set up, my computer boots up into windows just fine.
My question is this, does anyone know why i need to have this particular set up instead of just being able to connect all my drives directly into my motherboard without the use of controller cards? I'm definitely going to be buying more HD's in the future and i'm going to hit a limit of being able to add anymore without encountering the same problem again with the boot up process. :?: