Motherboard Problem

your ide ribbon not got an extra connector in the middle?

you can get the ribbons that connect two drives on one!!!! well thats all ive ever done
 
yeh fine-

there will be a set of pins on the back of your cd drive with a plastic jumper you will need to move it along to "slave" or it might just say "sl"...

and the hard drive jumper must be on "master" or just "ma".....

once you have a look you'll understand
 
Ok, i've got everything seemingly hooked to the right connectors, and as i try to boot up i get this notification "Please Insert the right boot program or designate another boot device". As I enter BIOS the only designatible boot device is my floppy drive...
 
Try not setting anything as slave, I have done it before in my current computer before i got my SATA HD and I didnt move the jumpers and it was fine
 
I have done it before in my current computer before i got my SATA HD and I didnt move the jumpers and it was fine
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If you did this by just simply taking the jumper out, it probably enabled cable select. Or something like that... whatever happened, an IDE channel always has a master OR slave OR master AND slave.

There should be a boot order list somewhere, make sure the HD is somewhere in it, otherwise the HD will never be checked for an OS and it won't boot up.
 
hackapelite said:
If you did this by just simply taking the jumper out, it probably enabled cable select. Or something like that... whatever happened, an IDE channel always has a master OR slave OR master AND slave.

There should be a boot order list somewhere, make sure the HD is somewhere in it, otherwise the HD will never be checked for an OS and it won't boot up.
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Hmm maybe, im remembering now i think my dvd drive has no jumpers and the old hard drive, i had no idea what that thing was set on
 
I think this thread is getting a bit sidetracked.

If you put the HDD as master on the "end/first connection" of the IDE cable and the Rom drive as SLAVE on the "middle" connection of the IDE cable it has no reason not to work as long as IDE is enabled in BIOS, AFAIK.

also(side note) - you can get a PCI card that provides IDE connection slots to give you more available connections. ;)
 
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