Replaced my mobo which was an ecs socket 462 which finally died, with a rebuilt Jetway 400dbl and reinstalled all memory, hard disk, fans, etc. from old unit. Adjusted jumper to recognize 333mhz fsb, and bios recognizes memory, but recognizes proc as a 2600 not a 2800. That is the least of my worries, as I cannot boot into my old disk drive, which on a good note is being recognized in the bios, but continually shows "insert system disk" error after post and single beep. Assumed hard drive was bad, and purchased new seagate unit and system posted and gave me the same disk error message. Went back into bios and set to auto recognize and LBA (160gb) and the same error. Also checked IDE settings in the bios and they are enabled. Also set 1st boot device to CD Rom and inserted OS cd, since I have not yet loaded my operating system yet, and still the same message. It won't even boot into setup... Please help.. I also would like to know what the (5) jumpers are located below the primary ide channel on the board. There is no reference in the Jetway v400dbl manual as to what they are. By the way, what is hdd sprite setting, nothing in manual? Thanx

Roy Richey

If your harddrive has no operating system on it you will get a message like that IF you are actually booting to the harddrive.

Check the boot order.

The new MBoard may not be able to run a 160GB hardarive. You refer to LBA but there are at least two current LBA standards in use currently. Your MBoard is probably 28bit LBA compliant. You need a 48bit LBA compliant MBoard to utilize a harddrive larger than 127GB.

However, the BIOS normally will pickup the harddrive but see it as about 127GB. If that isn't happening you may not have the drive jumpering or cabling setup correctly.

If the manual makes no reference to the jumpers you asked about then we can't really help with that. Are you sure they are jumpers and not a device header? Most modern MBoards don't use jumpers much except for clearing the CMOS.

According to the manual there is a frequency jumper JP4.

The picture I am looking at shows the SECONDARY IDE channel directly below the Primary. NO jumpers above. There is a header for infrared connection (IR) that has 5 pins. That header is located just below the last PCI slot.

I don't know what a sprite setting is.

http://www.jetway.com.tw/jetway/CPU...

Thanx OtheHill, I rechecked all settings including the boot order, setting the first option to boot from cd rom, and reinserted the op sys cd and utilized the ORIGINAL HARD DRIVE, and set the new seagate aside... I was able to access setup at boot and selected the repair option at windows. After setup, I was able to access the original profile on the HD with all intact, what a relief.... I will probably set up the seagate as a slave if I can get the mobo to recognize, that is next.. My next question is "Is it wise to keep the OS on a dedicated HD only, and store all programs and files on another drive in case the OS fails? If this is the case, and I will benefit from this action, I will move all to the slave drive, and do a clean install of the OS on the old master drive (which is a western digital 40gb)? Any help will be appreciated...... Thanx

Roy Richey

The stratigy I use is to partition my HDrives in such a way that I can backup each partition separately as needed.

That allows you to restore one partition without having to restore everything.

If you use some sort of imaging or restoration program and maintain current images you can use them to restore a partition withou the need to re-install anything else.

This saves time in the long run and also protects your data.

I image/backup on optical media, as I feel it is the most reliable. I also copy my important files to an external drive as an esay way to create a second copy in between imaging.

Acronis True Image comes highly recommended. I currently use Ghost 2003 but am getting to the point of switching to Acronis. Whatever you use be sure to at the very least, make copies of your impartant data. For some ideas on partitioning look at teh link below.

http://partition.radified.com/