Care you wrap your mind around this puzzler? I cant figure it out...

[Absolut Talent]

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?

[DoPeY5007]

power supply can't handle it?

[Pugsley]

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!

[Absolut Talent]

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

[FlyingPenguin]

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).