Cajun The boot device, which I imagine is your hdd should always be your Master device on the Primary IDE connection. Have you tried swapping both the IDE cables to eliminate one of them as being the fault? You mentioned IDE 3 before - is this a RAID Motherboard? regards Chris chris@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.spotta.com -----Original Message----- From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cajun Sent: 19 April 2005 15:23 To: PCTechTalk Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Chris, how is it that the hard drive must be first on IDE1? The Gigabyte manual specifically says that the CD-ROM must be on IDE1 to work properly, and I've always read that you should never put your CD-ROM drive on the same cable with your hard drive. You said the HDD must be Master on IDE1. Is this a feature of the new boards? The board manual does not tell me that the HDD must be on IDE1, only the CD-ROM. I am using the Master/Slave setup, not cable select. The HDD is set as Master on it's own cable. The BIOS is currently recognizing the CD-ROM as Master and Zip as Slave because they are plugged into IDE1. When I plug the HDD into IDE1, it is recognized in the BIOS as Master. If I plug the Zip on the same cable with the HDD, it is recognized as the Slave on IDE1. Nothing is recognized on IDE2. ) ( [_]? dj First things The HDD must be Master on IDE 1 My old zip used to work on any of my IDE connections - are you using cable select or master and slave. I would try the zip as slave on IDE 1 for now Leave the CD alone for the moment With set up as above what happens? Enter BIOS and see which drives are recognized. If it will not work with cable select then manually set the jumpers to master and slave - Hdd = master -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.17 - Release Date: 19/04/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.17 - Release Date: 19/04/2005 -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/