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Ok...as it stands now, this is how my main system was set up

Windows 2000 pro
Gigabyte GA-7vaxp ultra

ide0- Primary System drive 120g HD, slave 120g HD
ide1- primary cdrw, slave dvd
onboard raid/ used as 2 extra ATA
ide2- primary 80g HD, slave 40g HD
ide3- primary 120g HD, slave is open


So i got another 120g hd and I was gonna toss it as a slave on the open IDE3. So i toss it on the cable and start up. But now my system hangs on the windows start up screen. So with some swapping around, i was finally able to start up in windows, but it will only start up and find the new harddrive when i unplug the 40g hd from ide2

I have tried changing jumpers and putting everything on different ide slots. All drives i tried with both cable select, or setting them as master or slave. But no matter how hard i try, i cant boot up with the new drive and the 40gig HD on at the same time.

Anyone have any ideas what Im doing wrong? or not doing?

power supply can't handle it?

Originally posted by Absolut Talent
Anyone have any ideas what Im doing wrong? or not doing?

Yea i know what your not doing! Building a FILE SERVER!

Originally posted by Pugsley
Yea i know what your not doing! Building a FILE SERVER!

thats besides the point

the PSU is a 450w, it should be just fine

This is not a PSU issue.

Do you have BIOS configured to explicitly boot from IDE0? There's usually a setting in BIOS that selects whether you boot from the onboard IDE controller or SCSI controller (the onboard RAID is considered a SCSI). This is NOT the same as the boot order (although that should also be set properly - set it to floppy>CD>IDE0).

Sound like, for whatever reason, the mobo wants to try to boot from the IDE2 slave when you conenct that extra drive (you can boot from a slave - that's not a problem).