Abit IS7-E won't boot in enhanced mode

[Ambulater]

I have a WD 120GB SATA HD on SATA 1, a CDRW drive on IDE 1 and a CDR-RW/DVD
combo drive on IDE 2. All 3 are set to master. With this combination I have
tried setting On-chip serial ATA mode to "enhanced" and "auto". the computer
begins to boot, but the screen always goes blank before reaching the Windows
XP splash screen. Even if I remove one of the CDROMS or link the two CDROMS
as master and slave on one IDE the computer still hangs before the splash
screen if the On-chip SATA mode is set to "enhanced". The only way I get my
rig to boot into winXP is if I leave the On-chip SATA mode on "auto" or
"combined" and have both CDROMS on one IDE as master and slave. This works
okay, but I would really like to have each CDROM drive on its own IDE for
burning on the fly. Any ideas? (I have already flashed the IS7-E bios to the
latest version posted on the Abit website).


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Chris Lee

ABIT IS7-E, S.478, 533/800FSB, Audio/LAN, DDR333/400
Intel PentiumT 4 3.00GHz HT 512K 800FSB S.478
512MB DDR400 PC3200 Non-ECC Samsung
120Gb Serial ATA WD1200JD 8Mb 7200rpm
AGP (8x) eVGA GeForce FX 5200 128Mb DDR TV-Out
LiteOn Combo 52x32x52-16 IDE CD-RW/DVD-Rom
Creative 8x4x32 IDE CD-RW
Nikao DL2 MidTower 350W P.S.
Case Cooling Fan
Microsoft Windows XP Home

 

[Pen]

alt.comp.mainboards.abit might get a faster
response.

 

[Ambulater]

Fixed it. Turns out out IDE Bus Master needs to be enabled (which is odd
since this if for a DOS environment - but it works).

Chris "Ambulater" Lee

 

[Mike Walsh]

True bus mastering (e.g. SCSI) is always active and does not depend on the OS. This is something that is definitely worth having with DOS.

Fixed it. Turns out out IDE Bus Master needs to be enabled (which is odd
since this if for a DOS environment - but it works).

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