removing "press any key to continue"?

Try Cable Direct (default) or Slave jumper settings.

gregrocker said:

Try Cable Direct (default) or Slave jumper settings.

have disk,have optical,have detection and prompt.

Did you verify the connection locations of the devices on the IDE ribbon cable? I would expect the WD HD would be found at the end of the cable and jumpered as primary, and the optical would be connected to the plug at the middle of the ribbon cable and set as slave.

Some IDE cables and boards do not have the capability to utilize the CS (cable select) feature, but they all work correctly when the devices connected are properly jumpered as master and slave; with the promary device at the end of the cable and the slave in the middle.

During boot, when you get that "press any key..." prompt, do you have to press a key to continue the boot, or is it really just pausing for a few seconds before continuing. Your last few posts seem to indicate to me that it's really just a pause before it continues. If so, what happens if you do press a key when the prompt appears?

[QUOTE=F5ing;1944814]Did you verify the connection locations of the devices on the IDE ribbon cable? I would expect the WD HD would be found at the end of the cable and jumpered as primary, and the optical would be connected to the plug at the middle of the ribbon cable and set as slave.

Some IDE cables and boards do not have the capability to utilize the CS (cable select) feature, but they all work correctly when the devices connected are properly jumpered as master and slave; with the promary device at the end of the cable and the slave in the middle.

During boot, when you get that "press any key..." prompt, do you have to press a key to continue the boot, or is it really just pausing for a few seconds before continuing. Your last few posts seem to indicate to me that it's really just a pause before it continues. If so, what happens if you do press a key when the prompt appears?[/QUOTE
Tried to connect to the end of IDE cable with pins on 1-2,3-4 and no jumper,still got the detection but no disk.If im having the detection feature anyway(disk on-disk off),it should be a sort of bios setting but i cant find a specific non detection setup in the manual.You do know how "manuals" express" themselfs.Still reading...As for the last question,its indeed a pause and if i do press any key,it just keeps on with boot.

HD = jumpered as master and connected to end of ribbon.
OD = jumpered as slave and connected to middle of ribbon.

Duzzy, that sounds reasonable. Easy to understand that if the controller is disabled the screen is bypassed altogether. But if it's enabled there is typically a short timeout where there is a period of time where you can press some hotkey combo or such for some configuration adjustments. If you miss the timeout it boots the rest of the way and you've got to start over. It doesn't seem reasonable to have to press "any key" just to continue booting without any options to do anything else.

Does that seem logical?

It says on the screen it is a "PCI-E to SATA1 RAID Controller" but OP says there is no PCIe card. I'd check again.

I'd also check what the SATA controller setting is for the card as it may only appear if set to RAID, and may disappear if you can choose AHCI or IDE modes. In fact to avoid the screen I would reinstall if necessary.