Sata + Ide?

[kayson]

My bro has an Asus P4P800S. There's currently one SATA hd connected to it. I wanted to add an old ide one I have lying around so he can use it for storage, but for some reason whenever I connect it, windows said there's a hardware problem and it cant load or something.

[turd]

Dont know about that MB but I would check the drive jumper(IDE) and the bios and see what settings you have.

[TollhouseFrank]

what is the exact error? it would help if you could tell us. without knowing, we are guessing wildly....

methinks, without knowing more, that it could be an IRQ problem.

[alphasl]

Yeah, your system is probably trying to boot off that drive instead of the sata drive.

[kayson]

According to the label on the drive, no jumpers = slave. Seems odd to me, but it's a fairly old drive. I'll double check the bios settings, but I already tried that. The error is that windows cant load with this hardware configuration, please return to a previously working config.

[TollhouseFrank]

hmm... can you boot in safe mode? if not, where along the line does it freeze? (what driver or service or what?)

[kayson]

I can't boot windows. Well, it boots, but it doesn't get to the splash screen. I get a hardware configuration error. I don't think windows likes the ide hdd...

[Primu$]

If u still got ur motherboards manual read it for proper settings/configurations