W2K3 installation does not detect hard drive

sj1187534 said:
I think I did not understand what you are saying. Sorry about that. So, you are saying that I dont need to connect the HD LED at all for my IDE controller card to work? I have already tried that before I even saw the instuctions to install the card. It said it did not find the OS.
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Yes. The LED is not required for the card to function. The LED being connected is useful to the extent it will blink when the drive(s) on the card are active, but that's it.
 
Karanislove said:
Thats great! This ensures that there is nothing wrong with any other peace of ur computer and we dont have to do any other test xpt HDD's....

Yea! I also think that u havnt told about this before...Neways,

Good idea......
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I ran into something else now. I haven't tried it on a new HD but I installed XP Pro and wiped out W2K3 on the HD I have. The system still reboots itself but now I dont see any errors or warnings in the event log before it reboots. Not even one. It just reboots itself. The events 5 and 11 that I used to see before were due to the CD-ROM port on the mobo. Now, I connected both the HD and the CD-ROM thgough the IDE adapter and I dont see these events at all. I see one information event that "The rocketport/rocketmodem driver has successfully installed" every time I logon to the system. I am beginning to wonder if this is causing the reboot as most of the newly installed drivers require one. What do you guys think?

I also see only one error event 7026 after it reboots. "the following boot-start or system-start drivers failed to load: i8042prt". I understand that this is related to PS2 keyboard and mouse. I am connected through USB keyboard and mouse. I am not sure if this is related to the problem I am facing.
 
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