P5b Deluxe IDE issues

[klorel]

Well I just got my motherboard yesterday and I am having problems with my DVD drives.

Im running two sata drives and two DVD drives. The sata's are installed on sata1 and sata3. The DVD's are plugged into the only IDE port on the motherboard. I dont intend on running a raid setup.

So in the bios I have the following

Sata Configuration > enhanced > IDE
JMicron Controller Mode > Enabled > IDE

With those settings, I can get past post but hit an odd screen that lists a c: drive and something about kernal and doesnt allow me to boot. Sometimes I will also run into a screen that wants me to insert a floppy for the JMicron 32bit or 64bit drivers.

The only way I can get XP to boot is disabling the JMicron Driver which makes me loose my DVD's, or setting Sata Configuration to Compatable but that worked once some of the time. When I can get XP to boot, only one of my DVD's will recognize a cd or dvd disk.

Oh and this is a clean install of XP. I was told by a friend that I should have installed raid drivers during the initial install of XP

Can someone enlighten me :)

Thanks!


Oh and I managed to install the latest bios 804

[Merlin7777]

you do have the drives set as master and slave, right?

Only install raid drivers if you are using raid, which you have not said.

[klorel]

you do have the drives set as master and slave, right?

Only install raid drivers if you are using raid, which you have not said.


Yep the DVD's have the master slave set right. It worked fine before the upgrade :)

No I am not doing raid.

[Merlin7777]

Okay, since you are not using raid, do not install the raid drivers.
Anyone have any ideas? Maybe he does need the Jmicron drivers, but that should have been installed already.

Have you tried updating your Jmicron drivers?

[klorel]

I did install the raid drivers when XP did boot up.

[klorel]

My setup cant be all that different from everyone elses :confused:

2 sata drives sata ports 1 and 3 (maybe I should have it port 1 and 2?)
2 IDE DVD's (set master/slave)
Non Raid setup

What do folks set their bios too?

Thanks!

[Rev]

If I remember right you plug the boot drive into one of the black SATA ports and a storage into one of the red ones.

[Rod Moore]

Try this:

1) install JMicron by running the AsusSetup.exe (JMB363 dir of P5B CD)

2) right click My Computer and select Properties

3) in Systems Properties select Hardware tab, then click on Device Manager

4) in Device Manager expand SCSI and RAID controllers entry

5) right click on Jmicron controller entry and select Update Driver

6) in "Can Windows connect to Windows Update" select "Yes, this time only" and click Next

7) in "What would you want the wizard to do?" select "Install the software automatically" and click Next

8) the wizard lists all the Jmicron drivers and "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller" driver, select the "Standard" driver for installation

9) When done, the system will be using standard PCI IDE controller where you can select DMA mode

Moe

[OnDborder]

If I remember right you plug the boot drive into one of the black SATA ports and a storage into one of the red ones.
I think that's backwards.. pg 2-28 itm..

[klorel]

Thanks Moe, I will give that a try.

Oh and ya I have my boot drive in red sata1 and my storage in black sata3

[OnDborder]

Or get one of these and use it on one of your dvd's.. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812186007

I tried using one one each of my dvd burners but could only get one recognized, so I had to put the other on the ide port. But it works.

[klorel]

Thanks Moe. That seemed to help, I also had a ? on SM bus but got that fixed :)

Everything runs good now..... now its time to try ocing

[Merlin7777]

Great! thanks for posting back by the way. Now, if I have that same problem, I know what to do.

[bing]

It was the bug in the JMicron driver, go to Asus support web site and download the latest (beta) version though which is better in cpu utilization compared to the standard IDE type as above.

Had problem with 2 of my PATA DVD burners before and was fixed using the "standard IDE method" too, but this one is better.