Asus p5ad2-e woes

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  1. GSPK

    GSPK What's a Dremel?

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    I'm having trouble setting up the IDE channels on the board.
    the drives are.
    1x Liteon DVD rom
    1x Liteon DVDRW
    1x Maxtor 300Gig IDE

    Now the board only has 1 primary IDE channel & 2 Raid channels which according to the book can be used as normal IDE channels, if i plug the DVDs in to the Primary IDE & the HDD on the Primary Raid,the BIOS recognises the DVD, but not the HDD. If i connect them the other way round it sees the HDD but not the DVDs.
    The RAID channels are set to IDE mode so they should seen as normal IDE drive.
    I've run out ideas tho get this working. Can anybody suggest what else i could try.

    Thanks in advance

    G
     
    GSPK, 5 Feb 2005
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  2. Guest-16

    Guest-16 Guest

    Asus BIOS are a pain in the arse. Usually RAID BIOS have a separate BIOS but iirc the ITE is integrated into the normal BIOS, but it should pick it up under normal IDE.

    Does the manual have to say you have to set it to master/slave? over cable select. Or are you using a single ended cable/changed the cable?

    SATA to IDE converter?
    Latest BIOS?

    The ITE controllers are usually pretty good, it's just the over complicated Asus BIOS that's the *******.
     
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  3. GSPK

    GSPK What's a Dremel?

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    Thanks for the advice,

    I've set the jumpers on the HDD to be master, the manual doesnt say anything useful, only to make sure the Master device is on the grey (middle) connector, which i always assume the slave to be on this one, as for the cable its a standard 80pin.
    Think i'll try a BIOS update.

    edit:
    scratch that there are no bios's execpt the original :duh:

    G
     
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  4. whipme

    whipme What's a Dremel?

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    it's a BIOS problem. you need to flash it to the latest (1005), the one you get
    with the board (1003) does work though.
    i have the same mobo and mine kept rebooting just before it got into windows
    because i hadnt installed the ITE driver.
    i had the problem you are talking about with my P5GD1 a couple of months
    ago, that was solved by a BIOS flash to a newer version.

    for now, connect one optical and one hard drive to the intel controller and try
    install the driver and then maybe the BIOS flash.

    that is how i got mine to work.

    BTW...
    the BIOS might not display the HDD on the list of six IDE devices in the first screen,
    as mine doesn't, but it will display them in the HDD list under your boot options.

    let me know if you have any other problems.
     
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