A7N8X-Delux wont boot with attached ATA133 drives, SATA disk system [jumper settings] [pci ide]
Q: I finally got my system to boot from my SATA raptor drive after several days of frustration. But when my two data drives (a Seagate 80MB and a WD 120 MB) the system will not boot. Ive tried them all configurations, changing jumper settings, are everywhere in the BIOS settings to find strange, and even tried a PCI IDE card avail. It would be pointless if you couldnt use both types together drives (SATA and IDE), so I know this must be something simple.
I have a 460watt power supply and an action of a ram behind Athlon 2500 CPU.
What Im not there?
Re:It would appear guy nailed it…The pci IDE card was seizing priority over the sata drive. Using the IDE ports on the mb solved the problem. I tried that previously and it didn't work, but I had been trying every configuration I could think of and at one point had the two drives reversed on the cable, so the jumper settings were backwards, and I suspect I had them backwards when I tried the mb IDE ports. Thanks all for your help!
Re:Thanks guy…I thought I tried that but maybe not. I will have to try that later tonight, as I am working at the office right now. I think I originally got the card because I had 3 optical drives originally and had no space on the mb.
Re:SCSI pimpin' aside
There may be a simple fix for this. Boot from the XP CD, use R to hit the recovery console, type bootcfg /add and if the install on the IDE drive shows up add it.Re:I have a pci ide controller cardThere's the problem. Run those drives off of the motherboard's own IDE ports. This is happening because "SCSI" in the First Boot Device means "PCI disk controllers" to the motherboard, and when it scans the PCI bus, it comes to your PCI IDE card before it reaches your soldered-down Silicon Image SATA controller, and it will try to boot the one that it sees first. There's no way to reverse the scan order or specify which one you mean by "SCSI" on an A7N8X Deluxe.
my system is noticeably faster…I love that drive!Now try a nice Fujitsu MAS-series 15k SCSI (http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/guy/SCSI_v_IDE.jpg) drive… 
Re:guy: my power supply is Antech in an aluminum Lian Li tower
guy: In my bios, SCSI is my first boot device, cd is second, the rest are disabled. The 120 gb WD harddrive was originally my OS drive with XP on it. I had been having system crashes every few weeks where I would get the message: "disc read error occurred, press Crtl+Alt+Delete to restart". I had an image of the drive and just restored it when I crashed. When I first got it I had overclocked the system, which was unstable and causing the crashes, so I restored everything to the default settings and all was well for quite a while. After the last crash, I figured maybe my image was bad, so I bought a 36 gb raptor and did a fresh XP install (if anyone wonders if they make a difference, my system is noticeably faster…I love that drive!). When I attach the ide drives, either one or both, I get the same message: "disc read error occurred, press Crtl+Alt+Delete to restart". Doing so produced the same message repeatedly. If I unplug the ide drives, I boot from the sata drive and all is well. I have a pci ide controller card, and the drives were originally attached to it before I got the sata drive.
I think that for some reason the system is still trying to boot from the ide drive.
guy: my motherboard is an ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe
Re:I agree with what guy said. What type of MB are you using? Check the BIOS setting to see what the boot device order is and what options you have.
Re:Your motherboard is angry :Q To appease it, try setting First Boot Device to "SCSI" in the BIOS, and disable Boot Other Device.
Re:Does the system post meaning show anything on the screen. What about trying each drive seperate of the other drive? What brand is your power supply?
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