SATA woes ...

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Jeff

Ok, here is what i have and what i want, and my issues ....

I have 2 Serial ATA hard drives (the 10,000rpm 5.8ms fast ones) that I have
on my box. When I installed XP Pro on it, they were connected via an SiI
SATAlink PCI card as the old mobo (Soyo 845PE Lite) didn't have onboard
SATA connections ... now I have a new one that does (Soyo 865PE Dragon 2
Plus) ... here is my issue ...

For some reason, my mobo ignores the CDROM drives that are connected to my
primary IDE until I get into XP, then it recognizes them. I have put my 2nd
SATA hard drive on the 2nd SATA channel on the mobo, and it works like a
champ. However, I cannot put the booting SATA on the mobo in the primary
SATA onboard as it says "CANNOT BOOT DEVICE YADDA YADDA" to me ... trying
to resolve this, I put my XP CD in, and as I said before, it ignores my
stinkin' CDROM drives even though it detects them in XP. The only thing I
can think of re: CDROM is that since these are the UltraATA 133 cables (the
air flow round ones) perhaps they're not recognized or something, although
they ARE in the BIOS ... odd, eh?

I would LIKE to boot the XP CD, and I think that you can tell XP to boot
from somewhere else (mainly from the PCI SATA where it is at now to the
onboard SATA which is faster) ....

ideas?
 
When you installed XP Pro, the operating system configured your system
depending on all the specifications and components in your computer.

Since you changed the motherboard, and now don't use serial ATA connection via
PCI card because your new motherboard offers built-in serial ATA connection, XP
Pro system configuration still looks for serial ATA connection via PCI card,
not to mention that you have another motherboard as well.

If you ask me how to solve this problem, wipe off the operating system (remove
the operating system) and install it from scratch. If you reinstall XP Pro on
top of the old XP pro without removing it first, your new installation will
still keep the old configuration. So, before you install, you need to wife off
the operating system. That's my recommendation and the only way to solve this
problem.

I know it is a radical move, but you've done radical changes that affected the
operating system.
 
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