• Welcome to Overclockers Forums! Join us to reply in threads, receive reduced ads, and to customize your site experience!

Tricky problem here with new motherboard

Overclockers is supported by our readers. When you click a link to make a purchase, we may earn a commission. Learn More.

Mr_Fuchs

Disabled
Joined
May 26, 2005
Location
Rockaway Beach (Outskirts of NYC)
OK - I have 4 CD Drives in my tower, and I need to be able to boot from at least 2 of them (ideally all 4)

I have an ASUS p5gd1 motherboard

with ONE standard PARALLEL ATA IDE Port. and (RAID?) TWO PARALLEL ATA IDE ports.

my 2 hard drives are in the IDE port

the 4 CD Drives are running through the raid ports.

The Drives work fine in windows. And are detected in the second screen after POST

However during post they arn't mentioned, and they arn't in BIOS. In BIOS they are listed as detected.

A step further, after they are detected in the second screen it does recognize there is a bootable CD in the drive, but I have no option to actually boot from it.

What am I doing wrong ?

--- Using CDs from the 2 extra IDE ports arn't mentioned in the manual.
 
Back