Hard drives not showing in Bios

[lisa79]

Hi

Ive just installed my new motherboard, with one problem thought, in bios its not showing up my 2 ide hard drives only the sata ones are showing, thing is though is that they show up once i am logged into windows, how can they show up in windows and not in the bios, usually its the other way round any ideas, by the way my board is a asus p5gdc deluxe. thanks

 

[dragon2309]

Hmmm, what a pickle we have here. Are you sure your loking in the IDE section for hard drives and not just the SATA one. Also, if you can see/uise them in windows then whats the problem, if it works dont interfere.

 

[lisa79]

Yeh im positive im looking in the right place the screen shows all the current drives connected including the dvd drive which also shows up, and the problem is that i have an operating system on one of them drives and now i cant boot from them, it gets to the start up screen the one where the operating system logo comes up is but then i get a blue screen and it only happens on them ide drives, im currently running xp on my sata drive and it works fine, i judt dont get how its showing in windows and not bios. hmm

 

[dragon2309]

Not really sure whats happening then, try disconnecting the IDE drives rebooting with them disconnected get into wiondows then turn off connect them back up and see what happens then.