Re: Asus P5WD2 Premium board not detecting PATA Devices?

George wrote:
> I just purchased an Asus P5WD2 Premium motherboard.
>
> I have a SATA drive, and an IDE Sony DRU-710A DVD Burner.
>
> Problem is when i go into the BIOS, it does not detect the DVD Burner.
> Funny thing is if I go into the BOOT menu it shows the DVD Burner as a
> boot device which I can select a boot priority for.
>
> When I boot the system, when the IT8211 Controller detects the IDE
> devices, it shows the DVD burner there. And I am able to boot the
> XP-SP2 install CD from it (but it locks up immedietely)
>
> Anybody seen this?
>
> The DVD burner I know for a fact works, as I just pulled it out of
> another system in which I've been using it for a couple of months.
>
> My specs:
>
> P5WD2 Premium (Bios is 0422)
>
> Western Digital 250gig SATA Drive
> 2gigs of DDR2-533mhz memory (2 one gig sticks)
> Asus branded NVidia GeForce 7800 GTX PCI-Express video card
> Creative Labs Extreme Fidelity sound card.
> Antec 550 watt power supply (with newer 24pin power plug)
>
>
> Once I boot XP, it also does not see my DVD Burner... All I see is the
> floppy and the hard drive.
>
> Incase anybody is wondering how I got XP installed on a system where
> the XP install locks up when booting from the DVD... I copied the
> entire i386 folder to another PC. I then formatted the hard drive via
> a DOS 7.10 floppy, and via a dos net boot disk I copied the entire i386
> folder to the local hard drive. I then had to unplug the DVD burner
> (so that no PATA devices were plugged in), and then ran the setup from
> the hard drive.
>
> At least this way I could install XP, but I cannot access the DVD drive
> since the bios won't see it...
>
> I have tried the settings in the BIOS referring to "IDE Configuration"
> but none of the options have done anything to help get the DVD to show
> up...
>
> I am out of ideas..
>
> - George

Actually you didnt have to go through so much trouble to install XP...
i just connected my DVD-RW Drive to the Primary IDE (Blue Color
Connector, on the side of the board) and XP installed without any
problems...
Also connect all the optical drives to the Primary controller so that
XP will be able to detect it properly ...

.

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