Hi
My old motherboard gave up on me.So I now have an Asrock G31M-S with an IntelCore 2Duo E7500 @ 2.9Ghz.
With 2xsticks of 2Gig DDR2 800Mhz PC2-6400 memory.
Plus a Nvidia Geforce GT240 on PCIe.
All installed by my local dealer.
The harddrive on my old system contains Win XP Pro & loads of programs which would be an aboslute headache to reinstall.
My harddrives are all Maxtor IDE,DVD Drives are also IDE.
So I connected up my Boot master to master connector on IDE cable & a DVD Drive as slave to the slave connector.
Plugged into IDE slot & powered up.
Went straight to BIOS to check that both devices were on system.
The Harddrive showed as master but no slave.
Checked double checked jumpers were correct they were.
Tried the devices each in turn on their own & found that any of my devices could be detected by the BOIS on either master or slave but NOT with two connected,single yes.
My dealer suggests it is because one device is slow & bypasses the detection process.
I have two identical Maxtor IDE Harddrives in relation to spec. when both are connected only one is detected.
I have managed to boot up with my original Boot Drive & install the drivers for the mobo. fortunately I was able to get on the Internet & download the required drivers.
What I can not do is run two IDE devices on the IDE channel.
Any ideas to overcome this?
My old motherboard gave up on me.So I now have an Asrock G31M-S with an IntelCore 2Duo E7500 @ 2.9Ghz.
With 2xsticks of 2Gig DDR2 800Mhz PC2-6400 memory.
Plus a Nvidia Geforce GT240 on PCIe.
All installed by my local dealer.
The harddrive on my old system contains Win XP Pro & loads of programs which would be an aboslute headache to reinstall.
My harddrives are all Maxtor IDE,DVD Drives are also IDE.
So I connected up my Boot master to master connector on IDE cable & a DVD Drive as slave to the slave connector.
Plugged into IDE slot & powered up.
Went straight to BIOS to check that both devices were on system.
The Harddrive showed as master but no slave.
Checked double checked jumpers were correct they were.
Tried the devices each in turn on their own & found that any of my devices could be detected by the BOIS on either master or slave but NOT with two connected,single yes.
My dealer suggests it is because one device is slow & bypasses the detection process.
I have two identical Maxtor IDE Harddrives in relation to spec. when both are connected only one is detected.
I have managed to boot up with my original Boot Drive & install the drivers for the mobo. fortunately I was able to get on the Internet & download the required drivers.
What I can not do is run two IDE devices on the IDE channel.
Any ideas to overcome this?
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