Summary: I have an older packard bell 233 mhz, 128mb, running W2K Svr as a DHCP server. I changed the CMOS battery recently, after that the HDD was not being r...
Summary: Found this forum today and decided to see if anyone can shed some light on this problem: Only used one ide channel at first because had SCSI cd. Got C...
Summary: On my PC, the Primary IDE channel is set for "DMA mode if available. The secondary IDE channel controller said PIO mode on both devices, one is a CDRO...
Summary: Im trying to put a third hard drive into my dell. But it wont detect anything on the second channel. With my current setup I have 2 hard drives in t...
Summary: make sure it is enabled in the bios, I bought a p166 one time and the 2nd ide channel was not being used in it and it was disabled as well, so anythin...
Summary: This is a new computer being built. The specs are: MB: ECS k7vta3 CPU: AMD Duron 1.6 HD: WD 80GB CDRW: Lite-On 52x32x52x RAM: Crucial 256mb DDR 2700...
Summary: I think my mate’s motherboard is dying. There is a DVD rom and a cd writer on 1 IDE channel and 2 Hard drives on the 2nd. The problems started when...
Summary: Brian, It's just that with the jumper settings you had before you could have had problems then. I was wondering if you have any optical drives instal...
Summary: I'm having a weird problem. I've had my motherboard for a couple years now and its worked no problem. Then i was having problems with the computer not...
Summary: Hi everyone, I've just updated my CPU, and I'm very happy with it, but I've found out that my hard drives are really slow on this computer, to the poi...
Summary: "Hooking an DVD or CD with HD would slow the the HD to the speed of CD,DVD" Not true. A cd/dvd drive that operates at 52X max will not slow down a HDD...
Summary: I have an old computer and I am trying to install a CD-RW. I have never taken this computer apart before. I discovered that the manufacturer had ins...
Summary: I am trying to install my old ATAPI ZIP drive into my new computer, which has two CD drives (DVD and CDRW), both on the secondary IDE channel. I'd lik...
Summary: It is better to have the harddrives separated. I would suggest the Boot/OS HD on IDE 0 as the Master only and the other two drives on the secondary I...
Summary: Thanks, compaq (sucks!) and made it to where you can't slave it, tried then called and they confirmed that. How would I put it as master on 2nd IDE ch...
Summary: I just got a used computer, that used to be a network server. I had Windows 2000 Pro just installed 2 days ago on a brand new hard drive. I tried to h...
Summary: In over my head as usual... Anyone have any idea why every drive I put in as slave on the primary IDE channel eventually winds up corrupted? Files tur...
Summary: I have tried installing an IDE drive (which comes out of a 286! machine)in a Pentium 3 system. I installed it on it's own IDE channel (secondary) beca...
Summary: I just noticed in the MB manual that if I enable SATA I will lose one of the IDE Channels also that Hot Plug support is not available with this MB. 1....
Summary: Hi! What would be the best approach to set up 2 HDs, CDROM and CDRW on 2 IDE channels? I think of to set both HDs as Masters? Or to set CDRW as a Mast...
Summary: Where are you connecting the old drive? If on the secondary IDE channel then you need to leave the settings at master. If this drive happens to be a...
Summary: Hi, I recently put in a CD burner and have that attached to my harddrive. So I put my Cd-ROM stand alone as master. It does not detect the CD-ROM no m...
Summary: Tried a number of different cable. Ones that came with the board and other high end cables that I alread had. Save result. HDD is detected fine on ...
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