Re: DP35DP won't boot off of IDE HDD?
- From: "abovill@xxxxxxxxx" <abovill@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 14:14:48 -0800 (PST)
On Jan 4, 8:10 pm, CJT <abujl...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
berilthedwarf wrote:
I recently bought an Intel DP35DP motherboard with new proc and RAM to
upgrade an existing desktop machine. The old system has a dvdrw drive
and three (3) ide hdds. The motherboard only has one IDE chain, so
I've had to share it between the odd and system hdd (the other two
hdds plug into a seperate controller). Whats strange is that with the
OS HDD as master and ODD as slave the BIOS recognizes an HDD is
present but will not boot off of it, but it does boot a gentoo live
2007 cd just fine, from which the OS HDD is accessible and seems to be
just fine. Stranger yet, without the ODD hooked up the BIOS does not
"see" the HDD at all. And before its asked, on this HDD, "master" and
"single" are the same setting.
Does this mobo/BIOS not support booting IDE HDDs? I've tried all
sorts of combinations of BIOS settings to see if I could coax it into
working, but no luck. I was hoping someone could give me a definitive
answer either way before I dropped another $50 on a new SATA OS HDD
for the system.
Thanks,
Andrew
I recently bought my first Intel motherboard, and it has been a
disaster. If I were you I'd scrap it and look elsewhere.
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Wow, that was a helpful comment.
For what it's worth, I've been helping the OP with this project. we've
tried a gigabyte motherboard, and an intel motherboard. The gigabyte
was all sorts of buggy. (wouldn't reboot properly, things just didn't
work at all, cdrom not recognized etc)
This new setup is actually quite stable, it just doesn't boot off the
ide drive.
Now, testing with a SATA harddrive, Linux was installed on the sata
drive (sata port 0) and grub installed in the MBR of that drive.
Apparently the bios doesn't recognize that the sata drive is
bootable. We tried loading windows as a last resort, but it won't
even think about installing on the hardware (98, 2k, server 2k3, and
xp all fail misserably during the initial steps of the install I was
told)
Does anyone have any constructive ideas for what might be causing the
motherboard to
A) Not detect IDE devices unless there are 2 of them
B) not realize that a sata drive on sata0 with grub in the MBR is
bootable
C) cause windows to fail the initial stages of installation
Apparently, once the system is in linux (using a boot CD) everything
seems to work perfectly.
Thanks in advance.
--Andrew
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