Jag
08-31-2003, 06:22 PM
I got my Max 3 up and running. I noticed that no matter what IDE Port I have the hard drive plugged in to that the motherboard doesn't seem to recognize it/show it in the bios or at POST. When I look in the BIOS I can see my cdrom listed but not my HD. I went ahead and booted off my WinXP cdrom(takes you to the repair screen etc...), it let me choose the hard drive and format it oddly enough (however it would only let me format it with the NTSF partition type), and then I began installing the windows setup files. When it finished installing the setup files the computer restarted but it just goes straight back to booting off the cd and going to the initial WinXP boot screen (Repair etc...) as if Windows was never installed. It never seems to pick up that WinXP is installed and continue the installation. I took the IDE cable the cdrom was on and put it on the hard drive, and the mobo bios and when you boot up still don't list any harddrive (depending on which IDE Port its on it will just say IDE Port 2:None). Here is the hard drive I bought:
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewprodu...-122&DEPA=1
Anyone know a way to fix this. What wierd is that the motherboard will detect and show that the cdrom is connected on either IDE port with either of my IDE cables. Its also wierd that the initial Windows install could see my hard drive and partition it. Seems that that the mobo won't boot off of it because it doesn't think its present...
-Any help is appreciated!
-Thanks!
~Jag
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewprodu...-122&DEPA=1
Anyone know a way to fix this. What wierd is that the motherboard will detect and show that the cdrom is connected on either IDE port with either of my IDE cables. Its also wierd that the initial Windows install could see my hard drive and partition it. Seems that that the mobo won't boot off of it because it doesn't think its present...
-Any help is appreciated!
-Thanks!
~Jag