sata and IDE combo

[Greenfire84]

I am having problems with my setup. I am at work right now and was thinking about it and theres something i havent tried. But here is my problem. I have a nice sata drive setup and it work fine. I want to take my slave drive outa my old computer and put it in my new one. But its IDE HD. And for whatever reason when i plug it into the IDE 2 slot as a slave the comp goes and trys to boot from it first and not my sata drive. Do i need to set the IDE to something else? Jumpers are correct for slave. The bios wont let me change anything as far as boot sequence. What am i forgeting or what dont i know?

[sandman78]

I am having problems with my setup. I am at work right now and was thinking about it and theres something i havent tried. But here is my problem. I have a nice sata drive setup and it work fine. I want to take my slave drive outa my old computer and put it in my new one. But its IDE HD. And for whatever reason when i plug it into the IDE 2 slot as a slave the comp goes and trys to boot from it first and not my sata drive. Do i need to set the IDE to something else? Jumpers are correct for slave. The bios wont let me change anything as far as boot sequence. What am i forgeting or what dont i know?

You should be able to do that pretty easily. The Asus P4C800-E DLX has options in bios where you define your drive number and which drive to have in the boot sequence. I believe the default setup will automatically boot to the IDE drives. Since I don't have the IC7 board, I don't know the exact options in your bios. But look for an option in bios that will allow you to define the SATA drive as your number 1 drive (if you even have that option), and also look for the option to set the SATA drive as the boot Hard Drive in the boot sequence. You might also refer to your manual, because when I first looked in the Asus manual it was hard to find, but then I finally found where they walk you right thru it.

[Tigerbiten]

I agree with Sandman.
Somewhere in the bios you should be able to set which device boots first.
But it may not be fully activated/ visable untill you have all your drives online.
The SATA drives maybe under a SCSI heading.

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[Greenfire84]

hmmmm im looking around but cant find it. Is there anyone with my board that knows the right area in the bios to search around?