I recently installed two new dvd-drives in my computer that has an ABIT KN8-Ultra motherboard. At first, I installed the master, with no problems.
When I then shut down the computer and installed the slave, I couldn't get past the boot sequence when starting the computer.
I then discovered that half of the IDE cable on the secondary IDE-connector on the motherboard was not inserted, must have happened when I installed the slave. I then corrected that, but now the secondary slave doesn't get detected, and there are a lot of errors sometimes when reading discs with the master drive.
The discs are brand new, and I've tried with several IDE-cables to no help. Do you think the IDE connector on the motherboard may have been damaged in any way? The primary IDE slot works great, since I run my HDD on it.
Any ideas what the problem is, and what I can do about it?
I am thinking of solving this by simply not using the secondary IDE slot, but I don't know for sure if the primary works better with the dvd drives, since the data traffic maybe is different from the HDD's, and that the primary won't work just because it works for the HDD.
When I then shut down the computer and installed the slave, I couldn't get past the boot sequence when starting the computer.
I then discovered that half of the IDE cable on the secondary IDE-connector on the motherboard was not inserted, must have happened when I installed the slave. I then corrected that, but now the secondary slave doesn't get detected, and there are a lot of errors sometimes when reading discs with the master drive.
The discs are brand new, and I've tried with several IDE-cables to no help. Do you think the IDE connector on the motherboard may have been damaged in any way? The primary IDE slot works great, since I run my HDD on it.
Any ideas what the problem is, and what I can do about it?
I am thinking of solving this by simply not using the secondary IDE slot, but I don't know for sure if the primary works better with the dvd drives, since the data traffic maybe is different from the HDD's, and that the primary won't work just because it works for the HDD.