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lost primary slave when installing ASUS A7V8X-X
I replaced a flakey ABIT motherboard with an ASUS A7V8X-X. Nothing
heavy, just unplug everything at the motherboard, lift it out, move Duron 950 (dont laugh) and memory to new motherboard, drop in new motherboard and plug everything back in, omitting cards that provided functions now built in to the new motherboard. Runs great except for one minor detail. When it boots, the Bios drive list correctly reports the primary master (Maxtor 6L040J2), Secondary master (AOPEN CDROM), Secondary slave (Yamaha CD-RW). However, the primary slave (WDC AC33200L), which was working perfectly before the upgrade, shows as 'NONE' and is (naturally) not accessible to WinME. Strange thing is, I can go into the bios and look at disk parameters. It shows the slave correctly, manufacturer, model number, geometry, everything. I save the settings and boot - slave is missing from the drive list. I have tried it with type set to 'AUTO' and 'USER' with the geometry reported by the Bios, cold boot, hot boot. I even verified jumpers and changed the cable thinking I might have upset something in the upgrade. I dual boot the system and WIN2K can access the drive even though the bios says it's not there. That tells me the drive is hooked up OK. Just for some strange reason, the Bios doesn't see the drive at boot time. What would cause a slave drive to be invisible during bootup but visible to autodetect and Win2K? -- E-mail address is invalid due to spam overflow - Please reply in the newsgroup. -- |
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BC Berry writes:
What would cause a slave drive to be invisible during bootup but visible to autodetect and Win2K? What's the partitioning look like on that secondary slave? Reason I ask is that there are some limitations on where you can stick an OS on the disk with respect ot partitioning and expect it to be seen by the BIOS. I have faint recollections of these limitations back when I was playing with RedHate Linux 5.x several years ago. Is this new or used mobo (i.e. may be flakey bios NVRAM). I'd change the drive position and see if that secondary slave position always gets "forgotten" by the bios. -- Todd H. http://www.toddh.net/ |
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