Ive been trying to get my new computer up and running. I have a MSI 915P/G NEO 2 motherboard. However whatever I have plugged into the second and the third IDE ports are not being picked up by the BIOS. First off I had the primary IDE, the blue one, going to my two optical drives, a liteon cd-rw drive as my primary and a nec-dvd-rw as my secondary. And my hard drive was plugged into the secondary IDE port, one of the yellow ones. When I went into the bios the two optical drives were found, but the hard drive was not. I switched them around so the hard drive was in the primary and the cd and dvd were in the secondary and went into the bios. It picked up the hard drive but not the others. Does this mean my motherboard is shot, or is there simply something i need to tweak in the bios to get this working. I made sure that the IDE controller was enabled in the bios. I tried putting windows on when the motherboard was finding the cd drive, it came back and said that windows could not continue because it couldnt find the hard drive. Any ideas????....Im going crazy trying to figure this out....
It sounds like you do not have your jumpers set properly. Make sure that the hard drive is on its own IDE channel (for performance reasons), and that it is on the end of the IDE cable, which is the master position. Set the jumpers on the HDD appropriately for Master/Single; it should have a diagram right on it. Same goes for the optical drives; one must be master, one slave. Set the one on the end to master, the one in the middle to slave.
I doubled checked the jumpers, they are all in the right place. I am using the IDE cable that came with the motherboard, and one end is labeled MSI SYSTEM, that is what is plugged into my motherboard, then the other end is labeled MSI MASTER, and that is plugged into my hard drive. For some reason the only thing that is being recognized is the hardware plugged into the primary, blue IDE port. ANy other suggestions???
XP doesn't recognize the other IDE controller, and you MUST provide a driver for it. During XP setup at the beginning, hit F6, and it'll ask you for a floppy with the storage controller's drivers on it.
