Re: cannot boot from cd any more
- From: "Jaymon" <jaymon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 04:49:59 -0500
Hi Elsa,
EXCELLENT!!!
Your tenacity, and desire to solve your problem yourself paid off, you go
girl..!
You're very welcome.
Cheers to you Elsa..
j;-j
P.S. Thanks for posting your results..
"elsa" <elsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks a million!
Until this morning I was too scared to mess with the jungle of cables in
that box but the problem was as simple as that: They had connected the
cd-rom
to IDE2 while in the motherboard manual it's clearly stated it should be
connected to IDE1. So I changed that and everything works fine! Now I know
exactly how everything is connected in there.
Thanks again!
"Jaymon" wrote:
Hi there Elsa,
I must say you're a persistent gal.. ;D
Sure do love Greek cuisine and pastries, yummy..!
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=1856
This is your mobo, right..? If so get your updates here, when you need
to..
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ClassValue=Motherboard&ProductID=1856&ProductName=GA-8I915G%20Duo
Scroll down to Internal I/O Connectors see this 2 x UltraDMA 133 IDE (For
HDDs only)
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/Manual_DownloadFile.aspx?FileType=Manual&FileID=16456
See the manual (above link) for the Raid and IDE controller, HDD
installation, BIOS settings, etc., for more info or just download the PDF
file..
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
If you don't have Adobe or just want a simple & fast PDF reader might try
foxit PDF reader, if you desire to..
Looks like you may need to read the setup instructions for the HDD and CD
drives and make sure that if you are not using the Raid controller that
you
follow the instructions on how to setup the drives without it enabled.. I
noticed that it mentions the Raid connector on the mobo is next to the
IDE
connector too, it may be that the cable was knocked lose during the
graphics
card installation and reconnected to the raid controller in error..?
Hope this can help you elsa..
Post your results..
Cheers
j;-j
"elsa" <elsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Jaymon" wrote:
Hi elsa,
http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/peripherals/serial-ata_raid/
Might look over the above link, may be a support forum here that can
address
the issue, your having..
Not sure if it is a good idea to have the CD drive on a raid
controller,
my
guess would be to connect it too the secondary IDE controller as a (M)
master or (S) slave, with the jumpers set accordingly..
However, if the IDE data cable has a device that is set to (CS) cable
select
the CD-ROM drive should be set to (CS) as well..
Without knowing your systems specs and or who setup the raid
controller
in
the 6 month gap since the CD drive worked, might indicate perhaps a
connection was made to the raid (if actually a new card or onboard..?)
card
in error, with the CD drive and a HDD on the same cable, that was
originally
connected to one or the other IDE channels..?
So, you might just need to remove the CD drive from the data cable and
reconnect it to a free connector on an IDE cable coming off the mobo,
if
one
exists.. There also could be an indication in the BIOS or separate
BIOS
for
the raid controller too, though I am not sure if a CD-ROM is raid
worthy
to
begin with, this may be the problem..
With the Everest Home app, start it and click the (+) next to
"computer",
*summery* and right click it, to do a quick report to text, cut &
paste
as I
have done, below..
Motherboard:
CPU Type Intel Pentium
4,
2400 MHz (18 x 133)
Motherboard Name Intel Silver
Reef
D845PESV (6 PCI, 1 AGP, 2 DIMM, Audio)
Motherboard Chipset Intel
Brookdale
i845PE
System Memory 1024 MB
(PC2700
DDR
SDRAM)
BIOS Type AMI (04/25/03)
Communication Port Communications
Port
(COM1)
Communication Port ECP Printer
Port
(LPT1)
Storage:
IDE Controller Intel(R)
82801DB
Ultra ATA Storage Controller - 24CB
Floppy Drive Floppy disk
drive
Disk Drive Maxtor 6Y200P0
(200
GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)
Disk Drive Maxtor 6B250R0
(250
GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)
Optical Drive GENERIC DVD
DUAL
4XMax
Optical Drive Memorex
16X-DDL-IN
SMART Hard Disks Status OK
Do a quick report for (+) *Storage*, cut & paste the pertinent info
for
your
IDE channels, as well the raid controller info.. See below..
[ Primary IDE Channel ]
Device Properties:
Driver Description Primary IDE
Channel
Driver Date 7/1/2001
Driver Version 5.1.2600.2180
Driver Provider Microsoft
INF File mshdc.inf
Device Resources:
IRQ 14
Port 01F0-01F7
Port 03F6-03F6
[ Secondary IDE Channel ]
Device Properties:
Driver Description Secondary IDE
Channel
Driver Date 7/1/2001
Driver Version 5.1.2600.2180
Driver Provider Microsoft
INF File mshdc.inf
Hope this can help..
Cheers
j;-j
Hi Jaymon!
Thanks for your help.
Here is what Everest reports:
(The Greek in the report is because my XP language is Greek)
--------[ Summary
]-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Motherboard:
CPU Type Intel Pentium 4
530,
3016 MHz (15 x 201)
Motherboard Name Unknown
Motherboard Chipset Intel
Grantsdale-G
i915G
System Memory 1024 MB (PC3200
DDR
SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award Modular
(03/30/06)
Communication Port ????
????????????
(COM1)
Communication Port ???? ????????
(LPT1)
Storage:
IDE Controller Intel(R) 82801FB
Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 2651
SCSI/RAID Controller VAXSCSI
Controller
SCSI/RAID Controller VIA VT6410 RAID
Controller
Floppy Drive ?????? ????????
Disk Drive WDC
WD1200JD-00HBB0
(111 GB, IDE)
Disk Drive WDC
WD1200JB-00GVC0
(111 GB, IDE)
Optical Drive IDE DVD-ROM 16X
SCSI
CdRom Device (16x DVD-ROM)
Optical Drive TOSHIBA CD/DVDW
SD-R5372 SCSI CdRom Device (DVD+R9:5x, DVD+RW:16x/8x, DVD-RW:16x/6x,
DVD-ROM:16x, CD:48x/24x/48x DVD+RW/DVD-RW)
SMART Hard Disks Status OK
--------[ Windows Storage
]---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ ?????????? ??????? IDE ]
Device Properties:
Driver Description ??????????
???????
IDE
Driver Date 1/7/2001
Driver Version 5.1.2600.2180
Driver Provider Microsoft
INF File mshdc.inf
Device Resources:
IRQ 15
Port 0170-0177
Port 0376-0376
[ ???????? ??????? IDE ]
Device Properties:
Driver Description ???????? ???????
IDE
Driver Date 1/7/2001
Driver Version 5.1.2600.2180
Driver Provider Microsoft
INF File mshdc.inf
Device Resources:
IRQ 14
Port 01F0-01F7
Port 03F6-03F6
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8i915G Duo and at boot I see the
following:
Detecting IDE drives...
IDE Channel 0 Master: WDC WD1200JD-00HBB0
IDE Channel 0 Slave: None
IDE Channel 1 Master: WDC WD1200JB-00GVC0
IDE Channel 1 Slave: None
Scan Devices please wait...
Primary Master: IDE DVD-ROM 16X
Primary Slave: TOSHIBA CD/DVDW
Secondary Master: No Device
Secondary Slave: No Device
Actually, I had a new graphics card installed about four months ago and
that's when I noticed that my two hard drives did not appear as
Master-Slave
on the same channel any more but I don't know if this is the problem
since
the cd-rom drives are detected later on. Do you think I should change
the
way
my hard drives and cd-rom drives are connected?
.
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