IDE / SATA BIOS boot issue.

[alexisbatman]

System is set up as follows….

ASUS M2N-e mainboard with latest bios and drivers.
IDE MASTER = IDE 80gb HARD DISK with OS on it
IDE SLAVE = CDROM
SATA Slot 1 = 160gb Storage/data drive.

BIOS boot order is 1) HD, 2) CDROM, 3)REMOVEABLE 4) DISABLED

I’m having problems with a slow boot at the bios stage but often it fails to find the primary IDE and therefore the OS. If I remove the IDE CDROM and the SATA storage drive it boots perfectly from the IDE HD. Jumpers on IDE devices are correct. This leads me to believe that the BIOS isnt set up correct. I THINK its trying to boot from the SATA drive. I can see an option in the BIOS to change

Pleeeeease help me

Thx

Alex

[Denniss]

Check Master/Slave/CS jumpers. If using 80wire IDE-cable make sure the blue end is connected to your board and the black end to your master drive.

[edwin]

I can see an option in the BIOS to change

So why not change it? Another option is to see if you have a IDE harddisk pre-delay setting in increments of 3 seconds. Start with 3 and work your way up until it works 100% of the time.