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greengolftee87

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So I want to add more space to the computer that I use as a file server.
Currently there is a 40G master system drive and a 250G slave storage drive on 1 IDE channel and 2 DVD-ROM/Burners/whatevers on the other one. The problem being that replacing a DVD drive with an additional 250G causes the computer to hang/freeze when booting up. However a 160G does not cause this issue. So is there some magical number of GB of hard drive space that im allowed to have.
The motherboard is a asus p4sd-vx and the power supply is delta electronics 300W. But I have tried it with a differnet 380W psu. and different ide cables. and different master slave settings. and with and without a floppy (which always shows up in my comptuer for some reason)

I should mention that external USB hard drives cause the same boot freeze too
 
Do you have the latest BIOS for your motherboard? Also does it freeze if you have the HD as the only device on the IDE cable (just to test) Lastly, could you boot off the 2ndary IDE with the 40GB drive and a CD/DVD drive on it, and have the 2 250GB drives on the primary? (as a work around if not a solution)
 
Ive never tried it with the system drive out but i can. im open to pretty much anything. I do have the latest BIOS though, and Im thinking thats whats causing my issue
 
Check your jumper configs to confirm they aren't both set to master or slave? sounds like a timeout issue to me
 
yeah check your jumpers, they may be both set to something like master, and the computer just ignores that usually. usually you want to make one master and one slave, or put both as cable select. hard drives and optical drives usually have the jumper configuration on the hard drive somewere
 
Rahburt-33 said:
yeah check your jumpers, they may be both set to something like master, and the computer just ignores that usually. usually you want to make one master and one slave, or put both as cable select. hard drives and optical drives usually have the jumper configuration on the hard drive somewere
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So i could have something like 1 master and 2 or 3 slaves
 
whey you set up master and slave its dependant on the ide cable
so for your 40g and 250g setup, the 40g is most likely the master and the 250g is most likely the slave, both in the bios and on the indivisual drives jumper setup. so, what you should try is putting the 300g as master (in the bios and on its jumper settings), and then your dvd drive or whatever and make sure it is set to slave. or you can put both of them as cable select drives
 
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