FIXED! THANKS! Help Please, Can't boot from IDE0 on a KK266

loopy26 · Post by **loopy26** » Tue Nov 06, 2001 12:40 pm

Installed a refurb from Newegg, using a WD 20GB HD, GEF2GTS, onboard sound.
Power on, message: Detecting IDE Drives
Stays on for quite a while (15-20 sec),
Then goes to: Loading DMI Data pool (or whatever that really says...hangs for another 20 secs)
Then instead of the Win98 splash screen, it tries to boot from the CDROM.
I switched channels and put the HD on IDE1 instead of IDE0, and I got it to work. But I am concerned that it won't boot from IDE0.
(I had to clear the CMOS to get it to work).
Plus when I go into BIOS, and try to detect the HD, it does not succesfully detect it.
Thanks,
Loop

SuperDave · Post by **SuperDave** » Tue Nov 06, 2001 3:13 pm

No guarantees:

My experience with WD is that they're sensitive to jumper settings; a single drive jumpered Master has shown me glitchy detection in the past. When paired with a Slave, it was cool, but alone they prefer the Single jumper setting.

I've seen a large number (>20) manifest this problem, but I've no experience with the current generation. YMMV.

CMOSs clear differently; did your clearing operation hose the date back to default? That's my hint that things are completely wiped. No offense meant by mentioning that.

Busby · Post by **Busby** » Tue Nov 06, 2001 3:56 pm

Yep WD drives are VERY picky about jumper settings, especially on onboard controllers. I thought mine was broken and got WD to ship me a RMA drive b/c of it. However on external connectors I never really had a problem (HPT366 and HPT370 chipsets in specific).

loopy26 · Post by **loopy26** » Tue Nov 06, 2001 6:34 pm

Hmm...OK, I'll give that a try!
Loop

That was it! I feel like a total goober. I changed it to a slave drive to run filecopy from my old
system, and then when I put it back to master, used the master w/ slave position.
Thank for the tip! I was almost ready to RMA the board.