Re: PC Will not Boot


"geronimowww" <no@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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what are your jumper settings?


Boot From SATA 1

IDE 1: Secondary Slave

IDE2: DVD-RW Secondary Master

bad cable?

Try no optical and just the Harddrive as master on the secondary.
see if
performance and booting improves

tried 3 different IDE cables. All OK

If no optical, PC boots fine.


Firstly I was refering to 'jumpers' as in the pins in the back of each IDE
drive.
3 sets of 2 pins one of which is bridged / shorted by a jumper.

MASTER - SLAVE- CS (cable select)

Proper 'configuration' should be:

SATA boot

IDE channel 1 (primary) should have the hard drive set as master and
physically on the end of the ribbon.(80 conductor)


IDE channel 2 (secondary) should have the optical set as master also on the
end of the ribbon (40 or 80 conductor)


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