Hey folks
I have an Asus P2B motherboard and I am trying to install XP Pro onto one
15GB HD and there is another 40GB HD for 2003 server and backups and stuff.
I cannot get it installed. As soon as I hook up two hard drives it wont
recognize the slave. I have installed it on both separately, but as soon as
I hook up the other HD I can't boot into XP it will not get past the
checking slave.
Any ideas. The COMES settings are both on auto LBA
Thanks for any help
Bruce

Me2Ewe wrote:
>
> I have an Asus P2B motherboard and I am trying to install XP Pro onto one
> 15GB HD and there is another 40GB HD for 2003 server and backups and stuff.
> I cannot get it installed. As soon as I hook up two hard drives it wont
> recognize the slave. I have installed it on both separately, but as soon as
> I hook up the other HD I can't boot into XP it will not get past the
> checking slave.

I have several Asus P2Bs so I can say there is no problem with them
seeing/using 15gig/40gig HDDs.

Care to say how you have the hard disk jumpers set?

Or, perhaps the drives cant get along on the same IDE channel. This
often happens when the drives are too far apart in age, even if the same
brand, odd, but yeah, sometimes it's an issue.



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http://www.bootdisk.com/

Check the drive jumpers, one should be set for master and the other for
slave. Also check the BIOS to make sure that it is detecting both drives.

"Me2Ewe" <blawrence@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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> Hey folks
> I have an Asus P2B motherboard and I am trying to install XP Pro onto one
> 15GB HD and there is another 40GB HD for 2003 server and backups and
> stuff.
> I cannot get it installed. As soon as I hook up two hard drives it wont
> recognize the slave. I have installed it on both separately, but as soon
> as I hook up the other HD I can't boot into XP it will not get past the
> checking slave.
> Any ideas. The COMES settings are both on auto LBA
> Thanks for any help
> Bruce
>

Concur....BIOS support is crucial...(laffing hysterically)..

Check the IDE cable too....sometimes, the master drive has to go on the
last coupling..and the slave, in between the motherboard and the master
drive...

It might go: on the IDE...MB to slave to master...in that order.

I had an Intel MB that did the same thing...and thats the way I had to
install the drives...

I dont think the hard drive capacity has that much to do with it...15
to 40....isnt that great a range...now if it was 15 to 120...might be
an issue...

Set the master to "master" on the jumpers..and slave to "slave" on the
varying drives...XP does the rest...

Hope it helps....

I have tried to use master & slave and then Cable Select. One drive is
Maxtor & the 40 GB is a Seagate Barracuda. The 40 GB is newer than the 15GB
about 5 years difference
Bruce
"Plato" <|@|.|> wrote in message
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> Me2Ewe wrote:
>>
>> I have an Asus P2B motherboard and I am trying to install XP Pro onto one
>> 15GB HD and there is another 40GB HD for 2003 server and backups and
>> stuff.
>> I cannot get it installed. As soon as I hook up two hard drives it wont
>> recognize the slave. I have installed it on both separately, but as soon
>> as
>> I hook up the other HD I can't boot into XP it will not get past the
>> checking slave.
>
> I have several Asus P2Bs so I can say there is no problem with them
> seeing/using 15gig/40gig HDDs.
>
> Care to say how you have the hard disk jumpers set?
>
> Or, perhaps the drives cant get along on the same IDE channel. This
> often happens when the drives are too far apart in age, even if the same
> brand, odd, but yeah, sometimes it's an issue.
>
>
>
> --
> http://www.bootdisk.com/
>

I tried all that even changed IDE cables and nothing
B
<hiredgun56@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Concur....BIOS support is crucial...(laffing hysterically)..
>
> Check the IDE cable too....sometimes, the master drive has to go on the
> last coupling..and the slave, in between the motherboard and the master
> drive...
>
> It might go: on the IDE...MB to slave to master...in that order.
>
> I had an Intel MB that did the same thing...and thats the way I had to
> install the drives...
>
> I dont think the hard drive capacity has that much to do with it...15
> to 40....isnt that great a range...now if it was 15 to 120...might be
> an issue...
>
> Set the master to "master" on the jumpers..and slave to "slave" on the
> varying drives...XP does the rest...
>
> Hope it helps....
>

The BIOS is not detecting the slave no matter how I set them[40 as master or
15 as master] it will not detect the slave.
"OracleFire" <royireson@royireson.org> wrote in message
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> Check the drive jumpers, one should be set for master and the other for
> slave. Also check the BIOS to make sure that it is detecting both drives.
>
> "Me2Ewe" <blawrence@shaw.ca> wrote in message
> news:O3LT52EDGHA.748@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> Hey folks
>> I have an Asus P2B motherboard and I am trying to install XP Pro onto one
>> 15GB HD and there is another 40GB HD for 2003 server and backups and
>> stuff.
>> I cannot get it installed. As soon as I hook up two hard drives it wont
>> recognize the slave. I have installed it on both separately, but as soon
>> as I hook up the other HD I can't boot into XP it will not get past the
>> checking slave.
>> Any ideas. The COMES settings are both on auto LBA
>> Thanks for any help
>> Bruce
>>
>
>

Just for a test, you might try configuring the drives for
Cable Select (CS) and see if they will play together
that way.

mikey

"Me2Ewe" <blawrence@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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> The BIOS is not detecting the slave no matter how I set them[40 as
master or
> 15 as master] it will not detect the slave.
> "OracleFire" <royireson@royireson.org> wrote in message
> news:eZE8$nFDGHA.2320@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > Check the drive jumpers, one should be set for master and the other
for
> > slave. Also check the BIOS to make sure that it is detecting both
drives.
> >
> > "Me2Ewe" <blawrence@shaw.ca> wrote in message
> > news:O3LT52EDGHA.748@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> >> Hey folks
> >> I have an Asus P2B motherboard and I am trying to install XP Pro
onto one
> >> 15GB HD and there is another 40GB HD for 2003 server and backups
and
> >> stuff.
> >> I cannot get it installed. As soon as I hook up two hard drives it
wont
> >> recognize the slave. I have installed it on both separately, but as
soon
> >> as I hook up the other HD I can't boot into XP it will not get past
the
> >> checking slave.
> >> Any ideas. The COMES settings are both on auto LBA
> >> Thanks for any help
> >> Bruce
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

Upgrade the BIOS?

The Bios is set to Autodetect on IDE 0 slave?
Did you try connecting each drive to a different IDE channel?
--
Ron Sommer

"Me2Ewe" <blawrence@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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>I tried all that even changed IDE cables and nothing
> B
> <hiredgun56@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1135868048.885261.181680@f14g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...
>> Concur....BIOS support is crucial...(laffing hysterically)..
>>
>> Check the IDE cable too....sometimes, the master drive has to go on the
>> last coupling..and the slave, in between the motherboard and the master
>> drive...
>>
>> It might go: on the IDE...MB to slave to master...in that order.
>>
>> I had an Intel MB that did the same thing...and thats the way I had to
>> install the drives...
>>
>> I dont think the hard drive capacity has that much to do with it...15
>> to 40....isnt that great a range...now if it was 15 to 120...might be
>> an issue...
>>
>> Set the master to "master" on the jumpers..and slave to "slave" on the
>> varying drives...XP does the rest...
>>
>> Hope it helps....
>>
>
>