P5LD2 Deluxe - 1 S-ATA and 2 IDE drives

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Marc Baumann

I have the following problem:

I installed WinXP SP2 on the following system: Asus P5LD2 Deluxe MoBo
and 300GB Seagate ST330622AS which is S-ATA (no RAID). On the primary
IDE I have two optical drives. This worked fine...

Then I had two old IDE harddrives (Seagate UDMA100) which I wanted to
add to above system. I connected them to the two EIDE ports on the MoBo
(both master as different ports). Started up the system and the screen
got froozen on the initial asus screen. I had a look in the BIOS but
didn't change anything as I couldn't find anything to change. The only
thing I noticed was that under IDE1 was the first optical drive, under
IDE2 was the second optical drive and under IDE3 was the S-ATA drive...
Couldn't see the other drives there. Then I changed in the boot
sequence and there they appeared.... How comes they are not under IDE4
or IDE5...?

Then I unplugged the IDE drives and re-started, but the system was
freezing again after the motherboard check... it never came to the IDE
or S-ATA check. Even though the IDE drives were not connected
anymore...

How can I get rid of this freezing situation? Do I need to reset the
mainboard? And how?

How is the right configuration for 1 S-ATA and 2 IDE drives on the
P5LD2 Deluxe? I boot WinXP from the S-ATA drive.

I'm not specialist in this topic... first PC configuration after 8
years... so any help is very appreciated. Also if any more information
is needed from my side... or more clarification... please tell me.

Thanks a lot
Marc Baumann
 
If you've plugged the drives into the red ITE 8211F IDE controller ports,
you'll have to:

a.) enable that controller in the BIOS
b.) install drivers for it in Windows

BTW, I'd set the hard drive jumpers to Cable Select.

The freezing may have come about because your boot order might have changed
when adding the new drives. Check your boot order again in the BIOS.
 
I found the solution to the problem:

The controller was enabled, I also had the drivers in Win. So I did a
jumper reset of the mainboard... but still the same problem.
What I did then after checking out all functions in the BIOS was:
I deactivated the ASUS logo at boot... and it worked.

Strange but problem solved.

Thanks anyway!
 
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