Thanks for all the suggestions.<br><br>I think I left a key fact out of my original description. I can boot to the SATA drive. Everything seems to work normally for an hour or more, then the system spontaneously reboots and "loses" the SATA drive. Is it likely a motherboard problem if the problem doesn't occur on first boot?
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Carl Zeilon</b> <<a href="mailto:pclinux@charter.net">pclinux@charter.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Quoting jim scott <<a href="mailto:jimdscott@gmail.com">jimdscott@gmail.com</a>>:<br><br> > > I have a four month old SATA HD in my FC 4 system. A few days ago I<br> > > installed an IDE HD that a friend couldn't use any more. Since then, my
<br> > > system has been very unstable. The system spontaneously reboots and<br>leaves<br> > > me at a boot up screen with a message saying it can't find my SATA<br>drive.<br> > ><br> > > I changed the bay on my SATA drive during the install, so I checked the
<br> > > power and SATA cables. Those both looked good, but I reseated them<br>both to<br> > > be sure. Are there any system messages that I should look for? Any<br>other<br> > > potential traps when adding an IDE HD to a system? Thanks for any
<br>clues.<br> > ><br><br>Sounds like a potential issue with the motherboard. You may want to<br>check their<br>support site and see if there are any known issues where it flakes out<br>due to<br>having an IDE and SATA drive installed. I haven't heard of this before,
<br>but I<br>could understand how it would happen. Maybe a bios update would resolve it.<br><br>Josh<br><br><br><br>-----Look through your BIOS settings carefully. Make sure you have it<br>set to boot from your SATA drive first, etc. On my Asus board, there
<br>are several settings on multiple pages that need to be correct. It was<br>not initially obvious what to do.<br><br>Carl<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
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