Fanta Posted October 14, 2008 Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 Alright, I gotta fiddle around with the jumper settings some more but last night, I discovered my mobo only have one IDE cable... both my HD and cd-rom drive are IDE anyways, couldn't get any of them to work by changing jumper settings at all - mostly tried the cd-rom drive over the HD, but even the HD I tried. It's an EVGA NVidia 780i FTW. Is there something that I need to enable in the BIOS? I also went into the boot priority options and put CDROM as 1st and HD as 2nd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strang3majik Posted October 14, 2008 Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 (edited) yeah, theres a setting in the BIOS, my 680i did the same thing. Go to integrated periphials, IDE function setup, then make sure everything is enabled, and everything is on auto. make sure RAID is off, and make sure SATA is on as well, because i believe it uses the same controller. Mine when I got it had the IDE and SATA disabled, and that scerwed everything up. Also, make sure your boot devices are chosen and in the order you want them. Stock, mine was only 3-1/2 floppy or something stupid like that. Now, mine at least goes- 1-removable 2-CDROM 3-HD 4-floppy if that isnt it, call evga, its free, and they help a lot. thats how I even found these things. Edited October 14, 2008 by strang3majik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanta Posted October 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 well the SATA Controller was off, but still no avail Time to call EVGA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanta Posted October 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 eh, turns out it was just a bad IDE cable I forgot to check that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strang3majik Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 eh, turns out it was just a bad IDE cable I forgot to check that see...blaming the mobo...lol good to know it was something stupid. And, your IDE cable has a master and slave plug on it right? you should still be able to hook them up. Ive even heard of people taking two, and making one big one...not sure how they went about that though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanta Posted October 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 Yeah, I've heard that too, but eh - $13-15 for a brand new SATA optical drive, why not. Plus it makes the case look nicer. That and I have anywhere near 4-6 unused SATA ports... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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