Problem booting to IDE drive, Abit an9 32x, Win 7 64 bit

[Mr. LL]

I have a PC that I recently took out the SATA drive for another system and installed a IDE drive, it is a Abit AN9 32X mobo that has a built in IDE port.

I installed Win 7 64 bit and the installation went though fine and I was able to boot to the desk top but now every time I try to boot it up it tries to boot from the CD ROM. I went into the BIOS and set it to boot to HDD first, I then disabled all but the HDD boot, U even unplugged the DVD ROM but it still tries to boo to CD instead of the HDD.

Is there a problem getting this mobo to boot to a IDE drive as the primary system drive? If so I will just order another SATA drive and be done with it. I just want to make sure there isn't some other reason this could happen.

 

[MindoverMaster]

Did you try just putting the IDE HDD first and the DVD second in boot order?

 

[Mr. LL]

Did you try just putting the IDE HDD first and the DVD second in boot order?

Yep, I tried CD - HHD, tried HDD - CD, tried HDD only.

 

[MindoverMaster]

try reseting bios, unless someone else has another fix.

 

[carnageX]

Do you have your jumper settings set correctly?

 

[Mr. LL]

Do you have your jumper settings set correctly?

The IDE drive is set to master, the DVD ROM is a SATA drive.

 

[MindoverMaster]

Isn't it that if it is on a single line, you don't need a jumper? Been so long ago since I did this...

 

[Mr. LL]

Isn't it that if it is on a single line, you don't need a jumper? Been so long ago since I did this...

Yep, I changed it from master to cable select and now it is booting up fine.

 

[carnageX]

Yep, I changed it from master to cable select and now it is booting up fine.

Figured that's what it was. I always set jumpers to CS to try and avoid problems.