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elroy · April 14th, 2007, 03:54 PM

I don't know about this so I'll just throw it out there. I assume you have an 80 wire IDE cable for the HD. Would an optical drive that is ATA33 going to be happy connected to that cable? I've always had 2 IDE ports and have never done it.

Have you tried booting with just the cd-rom connected? [no HD]

Have you checked settings in bios to be sure it isn't set to use SATA as the boot or main drive? I know you said you set it to boot to the cd-rom but maybe there is another setting.

April 14th, 2007, 03:54 PM	#2 (permalink)
elroy Ultimate Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Indiana Posts: 3,764	I don't know about this so I'll just throw it out there. I assume you have an 80 wire IDE cable for the HD. Would an optical drive that is ATA33 going to be happy connected to that cable? I've always had 2 IDE ports and have never done it. Have you tried booting with just the cd-rom connected? [no HD] Have you checked settings in bios to be sure it isn't set to use SATA as the boot or main drive? I know you said you set it to boot to the cd-rom but maybe there is another setting. __________________ “Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.” Benjamin Franklin Last edited by elroy : April 14th, 2007 at 03:56 PM.