Hi guys, I recently swapped cases from a lian li pc6070 to an Antec p180. Everything seems to be working fine, except that my HD doesn't seem to be detected by the Bios. I have a simple setup. Originally my HD was master and the cd-rom was slave on the same channel. Because of the layout of the p180 case, I spaced the HD out of reach of a dual connecter IDE cable, so now HD is on the primary channel, jumpered as master, CD-ROM is on the secondary channel, jumpered as secondary master. The CD-rom is recognized as master on the secondary channel, and windows boots just fine, however it does take a little longer than usual, so I suspect something is up.

Oh, I should add, that the boot up time is noticeable - around 10 to 20 seconds perhaps between my Asus logo and the time the windows logo comes up. There is a small blinking cursor that sits at the upper left of my screen during this 10-20 second period, blinking, like it's waiting for something.

I am wondering how it can boot when BIOS does not detect the drive? Some drives can and should be set to single when they are only one on a channel. What make/model drive is this? Rule #1: Good Computers don't go down. Rule #2: There is no such thing as a good computer.

"so now HD is on the primary channel, jumpered as master, CD-ROM is on the secondary channel, jumpered as secondary master" If you only have these 2 IDE devices, that IS the optimal configuration. Check what Rick mentioned...some HDDs (Wetern Digital) have different jumper settings for master (single) or master (with slave) ASUS A7N8X-X Athlon XP 1800+ 8.5 x 200MHz 1024MB PC3200 2.5-3-3-7 Asus A9550GE/TD 128MB WinME/WinXP Pro SP1

Ah! That just might be it. I do indeed have a western digital, and had to reset the jumper on my cd-rom to master after it was initially detected as secondary slave (on the secondary channel) thx rick and jam, i'll check that out. btw i'm using a Western Digital 1200JB 120gb model.

Voila - that did the trick. I checked the jumper settings on my drive, and reconfigured it for a single setting (just removed the jumper entirely). Everything is back to normal - thx guys, I appreciate your assistance. :)

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