BIOS Q; Cannot boot with [extra] drive on PCI/IDE Card...


  1. Schrade
    Posts : 31
    Windows XP
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    BIOS Q; Cannot boot with [extra] drive on PCI/IDE Card...


    (if the sub-forum is wrong place for the thread, sorry; mods/admin move accordingly)

    I have W7 RTM new install, which boots fine as long as an old HDD is NOT connected to a PCI IDE Controller Card. If I plug in the HDD, W7 will not load.

    It WILL boot with the Card plugged in, but will NOT with a drive plugged into the Card

    Now that I remember, W7 would not INSTALL when I had the old drive plugged in to the PCI Card.

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    CPU is older AMD 2-Core...

    Hardware / HDD setup =
    IDE Primary - DVD on Master, S'Gate 250 G Slave
    SATA 1 - WD 500 G (with W7 RTM)
    PCI IDE Controller Card with a Maxtor 80G

    BIOS Settings =
    Boot Device Order = ODD 1st, WD 500 G = 2nd
    HDD Order = WD 500 G 1st, SG 250 2nd, 3rd Device DISABLED

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    W7 it seems is seeing itself 'out of disk order' somehow.

    One clue, perhaps; W7 AFTER booting (with NO PCI / IDE HDD plugged in), DOES see the PCI / IDE Card. ???
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  3. Schrade
    Posts : 31
    Windows XP
    Thread Starter
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    Anyone?

    The problem is HDD enumeration by BIOS. Apart from Disk / Boot Device Priority, I cannot find a BIOS setting for this...

    I DO believe BIOS is doing enumeration with the PCI / IDE Card disk set up as a RAID disk by default, but I can't find RAID Enable / Disable in BIOS either..........................
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