Could anyone please assist me. I have replaced my GA-7VTXE+ motherboard with a GA-7n400 Pro. I intend to use exactly the same set up, ie 2 hard drives 80gb & 40gb 7200; 1024 2100 DDR Ram and CDRW; with windows XP Home. When I start up the PC it detects the two hard drives; cdrw; RAM then when it trys to boot up it says:- Please Wait For IDE Scan Drive 0 Not Detected Drive1 Not Detected Drive 2 Not Detected Drive 3 Not detected It will not allow me to start up even in safe mode I have tried changing the BIOS settings to default etc, but still no joy. This board has RAIs/SATA on it; wondered whether I have to change anything in setup to tell it I will not be using them. Could anyone please give me any help/advice thanks

if you have raid, try turning off the raid feature in ure bios and see if that will let you boot, since you said that it detects ure hard drive im assuming that its ure on board regular ide ports that is being detected and the drive 0, 1, 2, and 3, i think those are raid...ports

From the manual it says "connect first hard drive to IDE1 and the CD-Rom to IDE2. I have done this. I cannot see anywhere in the BIOS that tells you how the RAID can be turned off.

Have you been into the Auto HDD/ide Detection screen in BIOS? make sure auto detection is enabled. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you feed him for life.

first of all i think you attached 2 HDD on same IDE cable and both HDD on master so you have to replace of one your HDD jumpers to slave and that should work fine they are in backside of HDD where you plug power supply to HDD