New Motherboard Cannot Find IDE Drives

[Gummy]

Hello,

I am building a new machine (something I've done before but not in a while)
using an ASUS P5GPL motherboard. When I put my new Western Digital HD it
recognizes it, but thinks it is the third primary IDE drive. That seems OK
because I was able to format it and it boots correctly to that drive.

Then I installed my DVD burner (Sony) and it is never found by the BIOS.
There is only one IDE controller so I've tried many different combinations
when the ones that should work didn't. This included changing the IDE cable,
trying a CD burner and/or a regular IDE hard drive. I've tried changing the
jumpers to make the burner (or HD) the slave, the master and placing the
drives on different places on the IDE cable but nothing seems to work. I
tried forcing the BIOS to tell it there was a CDROM on the IDE but it just
gave me the error that there was no ATAPI compatible drive.

Is there something wrong with my motherboard? Is there any way I can test
this to make sure I'm not the problem?

Thanks for the help.


p.s. Sorry for the crosspost, I was reading the other one but meant to post
here.

 

[Jan Alter]

Hi,

It seems that you're doing everything correctly. Have you tried cable
select? Jumper the both drives for CS and put the hdd on the end and the DVD
on the center connector. As a last resort have you checked the manual? Maybe
there is some esoteric setting that has to be adhered to with this board
because it has only one IDE channel.

 

[Gummy]

Jan,

I've tried the CS as well but nothing seems to work.

I just tried

 

[Gummy]

Hi Jan,

I first tried changing the BIOS into "S-ATA & P-ATA" mode from SATA mode and
that moved the SATA drive to the primary spot (not that it mattered). There
still was no IDE recognition.

I then tried removing the SATA drive, placing it in P-ATA mode with a HD and
DVD on cable select and that found nothing.

The other thing I noticed was that the CPU temperature is running at about
86C, which I think is way too high. Could that be having an effect or maybe
symptomatic of something else?

Thanks so much for the quick response and great answers.

 

[BruceM]

You need to put your optical drives on the single IDE channel & then any
other ide HD's on what you will see as SCSI channels.
You need to set bios to boot from scsi & set your raid to JBOD.
I'm NOT going into details but giving you basic tools to look at.
I'm not even familiar with your board.
Don't even bother expecting the bootup screen to detect & show your
HD's.............. it won't.

 

[Gummy]

Bruce,

I know you said you wouldn't go into detail, but you have and I really
appreciate it. I will think different and achieve... once I get home and
start banging on the machine again.

Thanks for all the information.

 

[Gummy]

spodosaurus, Bruce and Jan,

Thanks for the information. I will start banging away again this evening. I
really appreciate all the help.