Boot to slave on primary IDE controller

Hi ng.

System specs:
MB Soyo Dragon Platinum edition
CPU Intel P4 2.53GH
RAM 786MB

Have 60G Maxtor j'd to Mstr
10G Western Digital j'd to Slave

A look at CMOS during boot confirms 2 IDE devices as I want on Primary
2 IDE devices on secondary: CD and CD Burner

Running win2k pro on both drives
When login screen appears, as though no setup previously.
Screen is default to win2k pro install with basic drivers for video
Unable to login. No mouse, no keyboard input accepted

Shut down. Removed slave drive
Now all works as expected

Any tips as to what is going on?
TIA
goss




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goss wrote:

> Have 60G Maxtor j'd to Mstr
> 10G Western Digital j'd to Slave
>
> A look at CMOS during boot confirms 2 IDE devices as I want on Primary
> 2 IDE devices on secondary: CD and CD Burner
>
> Running win2k pro on both drives
> When login screen appears, as though no setup previously.
> Screen is default to win2k pro install with basic drivers for video
> Unable to login. No mouse, no keyboard input accepted
>
> Shut down. Removed slave drive
> Now all works as expected
>

Have you determined that the slave drive will, in fact, work by itself as a
master (boot) drive ?
Your easiest method of testing this is to remove the current boot drive, set
the slave drive to master, and try using it as a boot drive.

If it does work as expected then I'd suggest the following:

Install your current boot drive as it is now.
Install the CD-Rom drive as the slave on the primary IDE channel.
Install the second hard drive as master on the secondary IDE channel.
Install the CD burner as the slave on the secondary IDE channel.


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Ron n1zhi

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Thanks Ron

The drive will boot as master in a different system
I want to make it slave so i can backup/fdisk/reinstall

I will try your suggestion of switching IDE devices around
and respond with outcome

tia
goss


"Ron Cook" <> wrote in message
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> goss wrote:
>
> > Have 60G Maxtor j'd to Mstr
> > 10G Western Digital j'd to Slave
> >
> > A look at CMOS during boot confirms 2 IDE devices as I want on Primary
> > 2 IDE devices on secondary: CD and CD Burner
> >
> > Running win2k pro on both drives
> > When login screen appears, as though no setup previously.
> > Screen is default to win2k pro install with basic drivers for video
> > Unable to login. No mouse, no keyboard input accepted
> >
> > Shut down. Removed slave drive
> > Now all works as expected
> >
>
> Have you determined that the slave drive will, in fact, work by itself as
a
> master (boot) drive ?
> Your easiest method of testing this is to remove the current boot drive,
set
> the slave drive to master, and try using it as a boot drive.
>
> If it does work as expected then I'd suggest the following:
>
> Install your current boot drive as it is now.
> Install the CD-Rom drive as the slave on the primary IDE channel.
> Install the second hard drive as master on the secondary IDE channel.
> Install the CD burner as the slave on the secondary IDE channel.
>
>
> - --
> Ron n1zhi
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Ron

Switched all IDE devices around still would not work
Took both CD ROM out od mix.
Now Mater on C-1
Slave on C-2

Still booted to Slave
Curious.
I installed basic video driver and backed up wht I needed so I can fdisk
away

Thanks for your help
-goss
"goss" <> wrote in message
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> Thanks Ron
>
> The drive will boot as master in a different system
> I want to make it slave so i can backup/fdisk/reinstall
>
> I will try your suggestion of switching IDE devices around
> and respond with outcome
>
> tia
> goss
>
>
> "Ron Cook" <> wrote in message
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> > goss wrote:
> >
> > > Have 60G Maxtor j'd to Mstr
> > > 10G Western Digital j'd to Slave
> > >
> > > A look at CMOS during boot confirms 2 IDE devices as I want on Primary
> > > 2 IDE devices on secondary: CD and CD Burner
> > >
> > > Running win2k pro on both drives
> > > When login screen appears, as though no setup previously.
> > > Screen is default to win2k pro install with basic drivers for video
> > > Unable to login. No mouse, no keyboard input accepted
> > >
> > > Shut down. Removed slave drive
> > > Now all works as expected
> > >
> >
> > Have you determined that the slave drive will, in fact, work by itself
as
> a
> > master (boot) drive ?
> > Your easiest method of testing this is to remove the current boot drive,
> set
> > the slave drive to master, and try using it as a boot drive.
> >
> > If it does work as expected then I'd suggest the following:
> >
> > Install your current boot drive as it is now.
> > Install the CD-Rom drive as the slave on the primary IDE channel.
> > Install the second hard drive as master on the secondary IDE channel.
> > Install the CD burner as the slave on the secondary IDE channel.
> >
> >
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