No optical drive no boot?

[Loony]

I've done this before no problem...

I have a computer that has no need for an optical drive, it's basically a server/folding rig and thats it. I took the optical drive out of it to put in a new computer and the old computer won't boot into windows now. :shrug:

WTF!? :confused:

[Serra]

Have you tried moving one of the hard drives on to the SATA port previously occupied by the optical drive? I have an ASUS motherboard that won't boot unless something is in either SATA_1 or SATA_2.

Makes it pretty hard to help when we have no idea what kind of system you're running though ;)

[Nanometer]

check your boot order make your os drive first on the hdd list, and make the boot order to check hard drives first.

[XS Janus]

I had PCs reset on me if just the basic, low power system is paired on a powerful PSU.
example: my low power NAS server resets if it has only 1hdd connected. It works fine with at least 3hdd. Just adding a CD in the DVD drive works:D

[Loony]

It's an IDE drive. :p:

And yes, boot priority is set to HDD's first.

The board is the DFI LanParty NF4 Ultra-D.