"Xavier" wrote in message
m...
Hey guys, I just bought an NF7-S board and am in the process of
building
it. I ran into one problem, and that is with my harddrives. The
motherboard
would freeze at the part that says "Detecting IDE Devices." Well, I did my
research and sure enough, it's my older Western Digital harddrives which
seem to cause problems with this board. One of them will not be detected
at
all no matter how I run it (whether it be in Dual Master/Slave mode or
just
Single mode). So I've tried everything I've read in different forums
(mostly
playing with the jumpers) and the thing that worked for me was cutting the
first two wires on the IDE cable (the red one and the one next to it). I'm
willing to live with this if it fixes my problem, but my question is, will
having these two lines cut cause problems in the future, such as data
corruption? What do the first two wires on an IDE cable actually do?
Thanks
for the help!

Xavier



WD drives are known to have this problem. If using the drive as a single OS
drive, the jumper should be *removed* (it says this on the drive, itself, I
believe). Don't know what leads you cut, but repair them and run the drive
without the jumper and all should be OK.