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bloodybunny · October 12th, 2004, 07:11 PM

Hi there ,
i bought a new box from alienware a couple of weeks ago
and today i upgraded it from my local hardware store
bought another 1GHz of DDR2 which seem to work fine
and ATI x800 which also works fine ,
but the issue is with the 120GB Western Digital HDD that i bought
i already have a 120GB Western Digital SATA HDD installed on the box
so today when i plugged the new IDE WD HDD on my board ,
it detected it in the bios,
but when i tried to start my PC it wouldn't boot , asked me to restart or insert a boot cd,
that is weird because i even went into the bios and chosen the boot devices and selected my SATA HDD as my boot device , which is the HDD that has the windows on it.

i have my SATA HDD plugged into SATA 1 slot with RAID controller installed
I have my DVDRW plugged as master on IDE 2nd slot and my CDRW pluged as slave to the DVDRW on the same IDE 2nd slot ,
the new IDE HDD that i bought is plugged to IDE 1 slot
i even tried to switch IDE slots between them , and i tried to remove the DVD and CDRW completely from the board , and still it wouldn't boot my windows as long as the new IDE HDD plugged to the board.

i dunno , maybe it's something to do with the jumpers ,
i have ASUS P4800D SiS board , and after i plugged the extra DDR and the new video card, when i try to boot , it says something like "Overcloacking failed - please hit F1 to enter SETUP or F2 to load defaults and continue with booting windows".

i don't know what i've done wrong. maybe one of you could help me solve this issue?
i would greatly appriciate any kind of advice.

thank you for your time.
BB.

October 12th, 2004, 07:11 PM	#1 (permalink)
bloodybunny Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 9	IDE and SATA together, and i can't boot my windows Hi there , i bought a new box from alienware a couple of weeks ago and today i upgraded it from my local hardware store bought another 1GHz of DDR2 which seem to work fine and ATI x800 which also works fine , but the issue is with the 120GB Western Digital HDD that i bought i already have a 120GB Western Digital SATA HDD installed on the box so today when i plugged the new IDE WD HDD on my board , it detected it in the bios, but when i tried to start my PC it wouldn't boot , asked me to restart or insert a boot cd, that is weird because i even went into the bios and chosen the boot devices and selected my SATA HDD as my boot device , which is the HDD that has the windows on it. i have my SATA HDD plugged into SATA 1 slot with RAID controller installed I have my DVDRW plugged as master on IDE 2nd slot and my CDRW pluged as slave to the DVDRW on the same IDE 2nd slot , the new IDE HDD that i bought is plugged to IDE 1 slot i even tried to switch IDE slots between them , and i tried to remove the DVD and CDRW completely from the board , and still it wouldn't boot my windows as long as the new IDE HDD plugged to the board. i dunno , maybe it's something to do with the jumpers , i have ASUS P4800D SiS board , and after i plugged the extra DDR and the new video card, when i try to boot , it says something like "Overcloacking failed - please hit F1 to enter SETUP or F2 to load defaults and continue with booting windows". i don't know what i've done wrong. maybe one of you could help me solve this issue? i would greatly appriciate any kind of advice. thank you for your time. BB.