asua a7n8x-e problem

[Paddy]

I have two SATA drives and one normal IDE drive.
The SATA volume has the boot partition on it, but whenever I add the IDE disk to the computer, it tries to boot from it rather than the SATA disk. I have disabled the boot from disk0 in the BIOS but it still happens. Any tips?

[Wombat]

Boot order in BIOS?

[Paddy]

If i disable all the boot options then nothing boots.
If i enable 'other boot device' then the SATA boots, however the IDE disk always takes priority for some reason.

I only need to get it to work once so that I can get data off this disk. I tried hot pluging the disk in, but I can't get XP to see it

[LvR]

Bios update?.............

[Paddy]

no I am not using the latest BIOS. I am using 1011. rev 1012 is out. I'll check the changelog of the new BIOS to see if there is anything relevant.

[Paddy]

the changelog just says support for the semperon CPUs

[Paddy]

got it. I have to set the first boot device as SCSI.


cheers lads!