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PCI ata card issues, no boot

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by kiddk, 2010/07/14.

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    kiddk

    kiddk Inactive Thread Starter

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    I am running Windows 7 and my new mobo only has 1 IDE slot plug, My main HD is a sata and I have a second IDE HD in the mobo, everything boots fine until I try to plug my 2 dvd burners into the PCI IDE card, the pc refuses to boot and stalls during the bios startup screen, any ideas?
     
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    PeteC

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    Have you checked in Device Manager that the PCI Card has no issues?

    If you connect one DVD drive to the IDE ribbon cable does the computer boot OK?
     
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    Steve R Jones

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    Are the two DVD drives jumpered according to the docs that came with the PCI card?
     
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    I will try the above suggestions and get back
     
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    Did you install the PCI card correctly by letting Windows install it "Found new Hardware" and then connect one Optical at the time.
    You have on your card connectors marked as "Primary" and "Secondary" if you use 80 wire data cable you can select on both Optical drives "Cable Select" therefore no master and slave.
     
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    yes I did, the card was installed and running fine before the upgrade to windows 7, I am using ata133 cable wire.
     
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    Have you evaluated the suggestions made in posts #2 & 3?
     
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    not yet, been kind of tied up with family issues, will get to that soon
     
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    hawk22

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    If you have the Jumpers set to cable select, are you using just the one cable for both optical drives.
    It is important that the jumpers are set correctly.
     
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    they are currently set to master and slave I am using one cable for both drives but I should try cable select for each and use 2 cables
     
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    Steve R Jones

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    Double check the bootup sequence in the BIOS and make sure it isn't poining at the drives on the card.
     
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    Good point Steve, no just use 1 cable and have both drives set to cable select.
    But first do check in the BIOS that your SATA drive is selected as boot.
    I would also try a different PCI slot, as far away as you can from the video card if you have one installed. The problem is located in hardware as it happens long before Windows comes into the picture.
     
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    kiddk

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    checked the bios, it is set to boot from my sata drive, I removed one of the burners and set the lone burner to CS, still nothing, the screen hangs just before the "starting windows" the only thing left to try is moving to another pci slot, there is only one more and I have a usb controller card in that.
    http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o3/kiddk1/devicemanager.jpg

    the device is installed correctly in device manager
     
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    hawk22

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    have you tried (this is grasping at straws mind you) to hit F8 and see if it will boot into SafeMode.
     
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    Have you tried this yet?
     
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    yes, I tried 1 drive and also moved the card to another pci slot, no luck, will try safe mode next
     
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