05-26-2005, 05:50 PM
Eh... I don't know if your problem has been solved or not yet, but here's my two cents.
Check if your motherboard has two different places you can hook the HD up to. If you have your drives hooked up through the ATA/SATA or whatever connnection, and not one that says IDE, then they won't be recognized as IDE drives in the BIOS. If that is what works, then just make sure you change the boot-up sequence so that it goes to the ATA drive and not an IDE one. ATA has been listed under the "other devices" category, so you might want to check there.
<personal experience story> I have the Asus A7V and noticed that when I hooked the drives up through the ATA instead of the IDE they weren't recognized in the BIOS. They still worked, but I had to change a setting in the BIOS so that it would load the ATA on-board BIOS, then they were detected during the boot process, but still wouldn't show up in the POST or BIOS as being on the IDE channel. It showed another listing of ATA drives and there they were.</personal experience story>
Check if your motherboard has two different places you can hook the HD up to. If you have your drives hooked up through the ATA/SATA or whatever connnection, and not one that says IDE, then they won't be recognized as IDE drives in the BIOS. If that is what works, then just make sure you change the boot-up sequence so that it goes to the ATA drive and not an IDE one. ATA has been listed under the "other devices" category, so you might want to check there.
<personal experience story> I have the Asus A7V and noticed that when I hooked the drives up through the ATA instead of the IDE they weren't recognized in the BIOS. They still worked, but I had to change a setting in the BIOS so that it would load the ATA on-board BIOS, then they were detected during the boot process, but still wouldn't show up in the POST or BIOS as being on the IDE channel. It showed another listing of ATA drives and there they were.</personal experience story>
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