I have a Sony optical drive connected through SATA. All 6 SATA ports show up in my BIOS, the optical drive is recognized correctly in BIOS no matter which port I connect it to. THE PROBLEM OCCURS ONCE WINDOWS XP BOOTS. I've swapped sata cables, swapped optical drives, deleted the upper and lower registry filters, gone through microsoft fixit, searched through my system errors looking for an sata problem (there wasn't one). This optical drive is PLUG and PLAY so don't tell me it's a driver issue! THIS IS A WINDOWS PROBLEM, I know that much. It's not the cables or the drive, it's not drivers or dvd/cd software because nothing has been changed since the drive stopped working. All system drivers are up to date according to my device manager. There must be someone out there who can tell me what the fix is. It's got to be a Windows update that caused this problem because that's the only change that's been made to my pc. No other software or hardware has been changed other than Windows XP since this happened. The drive tray won't open, it's not recognized, nor are the SATA ports recognized by windows. Also, in my device manager, under IDE/ATA, there are primary and secondary listed. I only have one IDE port on my mother board, so why does device manager show 8? Should only list 2. I refuse to waste my time moving all of my 300GB worth of files to another HDD just to reload windows. There has to be another way.
In my travels through this nightmare called Windows, there have been some real issues. I ran into this same problem with XP with SP3, What I did was set up a virtual machine running Vista Premium and loaded the SATA Optical with the Vista OS which recognized it right off. I was able to use the drive just fine when using the Vista in the virtual machine but was not seen in XP. Have not found a decent work around this....just waiting for Windows 7 to come out so I dump both XP and Vista and start over learning another new curb, but at least I've been told that a huge amount of drivers are to be loaded into the new OS...we'll see.
SATA can only have one drive per channel so it does not need a jumper. Most SATA connections and such can been turned and modified on the BIOS screen. The BIOS may be where you can choose which one is the master or not. I know there are some computers that can have different types of drives. The SATA usually is the master(primary) and the PATA/IDE would be the secondary drives. You might have a problem with Transfer speed of the drive as well. I would see if you can drop the transfer rate to 1.5 Gb/s on the SATA. You computer may only support that and not SATA II 3.0 Gb/s. Hitachi has a great program to do that called Feature Tools, I am sure other hard drive manufactures have a way to do that on theirs too. I have only had to do it on Hitachi's for my self.
Yes you can do this but rather that buy a sata II hdd just buy a sata hdd. Might even be a little cheaper. Once you install go into the system bios & enable the sata drive. Hope this helps & please remember to rate my answer. Thanks.
I didnt got exactly what ya want ...but I have some idea... probably it says something like ( at identification on boot ) primary ide controller.....cd/dvd...... secondary ..ide ...hdd...... sata controller hdd.... this is not an issue of which one is primary ans so ....cause those are 2 completely different bus-es ...and the only way to make your ide hdd be read like primary ...its to change the plug with the one from the cd /dvd..drive .. the rest doesnt matter cause it s a different controller...
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If your CD / DVD is powered on Ok then you are missing the data cable connection which will be either a SATA (small connector) or IDE (much larger connector) both of which plug in to your motherboard....Look at the CD / DVD and try to identify which type of connector you are missing then look for an unconnected cable of the same type within your case.
As I recall, this model has one IDE channel on, which typically powered an optical drive. The manufacturer claims that it supports one IDE drive, in theory, you could set the IDE HDD on the second connector of the IDE cable (secondary slave), however, it may be that the Bios will not recognize this.
My own thoughts would be, as this has 2 SATA ports, to leave the IDE connection alone and for the Optical drive and put another SATA HDD on the other SATA connector.
If you need to use the IDE drive, you can get an IDE to SATA adapter and that would enable you to use it connecetd to the SATA connector
As to capacity, I'd assume it would run any size of HDD
In the Advanced Boot settings of the BIOS you will see a general boot order setting and then there are 2 others: for the order of the optical units and for the order of the hard disks.
Open the setting for the optical units and put the SATA one first - the IDE one is there first by default.
These are the steps for installing your optical drive:
1. Remove both side covers on your PC case.
2. Locate a free 5.25 in bay on your desktop computer. This is usually located near the front/top part of a PC ATX case.
3. Remove the front/external cover for your chosen drive bay. This cover is usually not screwed in. You just have to pry it open.
4. Screw in the optical drive to the drive bay. You need 4 screws, 2 on each side.
5. Power connection : Locate a SATA power connector from your power supply and plug this into your new optical drive. The SATA power connector looks like this
6. Data Connection - Locate the SATA ports on your motherboard which looks like this
You need to plug in a SATA cable from your motherboard to your new optical drive
SATA cable
SATA power and data ports on the back of the optical drive
7. That's it! Your new optical drive should now work. it's plug n Play so you don't need to install any drivers for this device.
You have either a bad optical drive or optical port. You can still load the OS but you need to make a bootable USB drive and install that way. Or get and use an external USB optical.
also, check in your bios or for the drive settings, it may be set to only accept sata drives or the port may be disabled. some latitudes give the ability to disable or not look at a specific port.
Well, that depends on what type of optical drives you have. The board (sweet) has 6 SATA ports, if both of your optical drives are SATA drives, then just plug them both into the next consecutive SATA port. Now, if you have a PATA drive, my suggestion is to get a dual PATA cable to connect to the board. Make the one you'll use the most the Master and the other the Slave. And Bios and Windows will automatically setup the drive letters for you.
In the Open box, type regedit , and then click OK .
In the navigation pane, locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
In the right pane, click UpperFilters .
Note You may also see an UpperFilters.bak registry entry. You do not have to remove that entry. Click UpperFilters only. If you do not see the UpperFilters registry entry, you still might have to remove the LowerFilters registry entry. To do this, go to step 7.
On the Edit menu, click Delete .
When you are prompted to confirm the deletion, click Yes .
In the right pane, click LowerFilters .
Note If you do not see the LowerFilters registry entry, unfortunately this content cannot help you any further. Go to the "Next Steps" section for information about how you can find more solutions or more help on the Microsoft Web site.
On the Edit menu, click Delete .
When you are prompted to confirm the deletion, click Yes .
Yes, since you are using two IDE drives on One flat ribbon cable, you need to set the harddrive as a Master drive, and the optical, (DVD), drive as a Slave drive.
When two IDE drives are installed on one cable, BIOS needs a way to find the drive that has the O/S, (Operating System), then the optical drive.
Would recommend you buy a SATA optical drive, as soon as you can afford it. SATA DVD burners aren't that expensive. Your motherboard is set up for SATA, and SATA is WAY faster than IDE. (IDE is also referred to as EIDE, ATA, and PATA)
Then of course a SATA harddrive, and a fresh genuine copy of Windows in the future. SATA doesn't care where you plug in a drive, and doesn't care which drive connects to what SATA header. It will find that drive. You can connect any SATA drive, to ANY SATA header on the motherboard.
Having two IDE drives such as an IDE harddrive, and an IDE optical drive on the same cable, S-L-O-W-S your computer down! BIOS has to look to see which drive has the O/S first, then it will look for the optical drive.
Thought I would include two links that tell you, and show you how to set jumpers on the jumper pins, on an IDE harddrive, and IDE optical drive, 1.Harddrive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwbboeMO7b8&feature=related 2.Optical drive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lldXwgPabhE&feature=channel
Should my solution have helped you, feel free to rate it.
Hi blckpythn,
If you're bios does not show the SATA drive, than it is possible the SATA controller is defective. I have come across this before.
Unplug the power cable from the PC.
Make sure the SATA data cable (Inside the connector) is clean. Take some alcohol, drip it on to a cotton swab. Clean the connector at both ends. Than clean the SATA connector on the board. Do the same for the SATA power connector. Please be sure everything is plugged in. (It takes very little for the SATA connectors to look connected but are not). Plug in you're power cable & boot to the bios by pressing the delete key. If the SATA drive is not seen by the bios, well you know all ready.
You can call Asus M-F 8:00AM to 5:00PM EST. Tech support number: 1-812-282-2787. Asus warrants their boards for three years. They will ask for the number's typed on a sticker located on the pink LPT port.
You can see this SN from inside you're case only. That SN will let the tech know if you're board is still in warranty. If it is, make sure you get a case number before you hang up with the tech.
You will need a case number before you can get a RMA number.
Good Luck!
If I can help you further, feel free to post. Suggestions & comments welcomed.
Mike
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