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CJJohnson · 08-12-2005, 07:31 PM

It sounds as though you may have your IDE cable round the wrong way. The short stretch should be between the 2 HDDs. You need to change the jumpers on the back of your hard drives to master(for the main one) and slave, or Cable select if your drives/motherboard supports it.

It sounds as though both Drives are configured as master, and that will confuse the **** out of the motherboard.

08-12-2005, 07:31 PM	#2 (permalink)
CJJohnson True Techie Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 147	It sounds as though you may have your IDE cable round the wrong way. The short stretch should be between the 2 HDDs. You need to change the jumpers on the back of your hard drives to master(for the main one) and slave, or Cable select if your drives/motherboard supports it. It sounds as though both Drives are configured as master, and that will confuse the **** out of the motherboard. __________________ If it wasn\'t for Electricians you would be using your computer by candle light Computer: Athlon 64 3500+ ASUS A8V-E Deluxe Motherboard 2x512MB 400MHz DDR Dual Channel Gigabyte X800XL - 256MB Mem Maxtor Y160M0 - 160GB SATA Maxtor 80GB PATA Xaser III Case Win XP Pro SP2 ViewSonic VX924 19\"LCD 4mS(ish)