Asus P5WD2 Premium board not detecting PATA Devices?

[George]

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

 

[Paul]

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

The FAQ page has the answer:

http://support.asus.com.tw/faq/faq.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

http://support.asus.com.tw/faq/faq_...7-60C9-249F-1885-92D199A5EA5F&SLanguage=en-us

"Question:

Can I connect a CD-ROM to P5WD2 Premium ITE slot to boot from it?

Answer:

As suggested by ITE, please do not connect ATAPI devices to ITE
slots if you want to boot from it. You can connect ATAPI devies
to Intel ICH7R slots."

If they knew this, why did they bother using the 8211F ?
After all, plenty of people have multiple optical drives, and
where are you going to put them all ?

Try using an 80 wire cable with the DVD drive. Maybe the
problem is partially a signal quality problem ?

For drivers for the 8211F, you can go here. Fourth item up
from the bottom of the page. The 1.3.2 looks to be the
same version as is on the Asus download page:

http://www.iteusa.com/software_download/software_download2.asp

Paul

 

[gogy]

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 ...

 

[George]

Thanks guys for the info! I was already using an 80pin cable for the
DVD drive, but I had plugged it into the red IDE connector. On most
motherboards the dual IDE connectors o the board are the regular IDE
Primary and Secondary connectors, the the blue connector in the side is
the IDE Raid connector..

As I now know, that ain't the case on this board! Once I plugged in
the DVD drive onto the blue IDE connector on the side, it immedietely
appeared in the BIOS as connected on the Primary IDE channel, and XP
recognized it immedetely.

Also, I can now boot my Knoppix CD. When I had the DVD drive on the
red IDE connector (the ITE controller) ,and booted Knoppix, it would
fail stating it could not mount it's partition. Knoppix obviously does
not have drivers for the ITE controller, so it would always fail. Same
thing with Windows, it did not see the DVD drive when it was plugged
into that controller.

By the way, in the past whenever I install XP onto a SATA drive with an
IDE CD/DVD Drive, if I install XP by booting it from the CD, the
problem is that Windows will assigned the C: to the CD/DVD and D: to
the hard drive. Since I want the hard drive to become the C: drive,
that is the primary reason I unplugged all devices except the SATA hard
drive, so that the hard drive would be detected as C:.

Once that was done, I could plug in all the other devices (USB CF
readers, DVD drive, Zip, etc...) and then they would be assigned D:, E:
and so forth.

- George