Problem w/ New Motherboard

[leonardmp92]

Would all this be solved if I had a SATA CD drive?

 

[Peter.Cort]

haha ok. sounds good, maybe your computer can think about what its done overnight and right itself in the morning

and it's possible. There's no reason why it shouldn't work with an IDE drive, everything's backwards compatible so it ought to work, but I think a sata drive would make it work better. and if you're installing games or anything it'll go a lot faster with a sata drive. and it'll make your case prettier if you can get rid of the IDE ribbon cable :]

 

[leonardmp92]

Could the power settings cause this since I've had to play around w/ the right way to connect the power cables...I have 2 connected to the Mobo (an 8 pin and a 24 pin)

 

[Peter.Cort]

nah, the 8 pin and 24 pin are what you should have connected.

 

[leonardmp92]

OK, thanks Peter, hitting the hay now, appreciate your help.

 

[leonardmp92]

I think I will just get a $18 SATA CD/DVD drive from Microcenter since the one I have (IDE) is only 16x.

 

[leonardmp92]

Just tried to run the DVD/CD drive via a IDE to SATA interface, BIOS did not even see it. I made the BIOS changes you mentioned. I'm thinking that the BIOS does not even see the drive at all. I even tried to connect via USB, it only saw that it was a drive, but was not in the boot menu startup option.

 

[leonardmp92]

OK, installed a SATA CDROM, that did it. I reinstalled the OS and just have to rebuild the image. One problem, when it "reboots", it doesnt really reboot, just goes to shutdown, then hangs. I have to hard stop it, then start back up everytime.

Any thoughts?