- Joined
- Mar 7, 2006
- Location
- Connecticut
My new AM2+ board is working great with one exception.
When I first installed everything I had no problems. My HD is SATAII which by default is run in legacy IDE mode. My DVD drive is IDE (it works great so I'm not going to upgrade until it dies).
Naturally, I do some tweaking in the BIOS for overclocking and such. Eventually, I notice that in POST, the DVD drive is no longer detected. I swap it out for a known good IDE HD and that isn't detected either. I return the BIOS to fail-safe defaults and suddenly it is recognized. So I start putting my BIOS back to how I had it set except I do one option at a time and reboot to see what is causing the problem. Eventually, I reboot and the drive isn't there. I go into the BIOS and change the last setting back and reboot...but the drive STILL isn't there. So I work backward, resetting the BIOS to stock one option at time. I can't get any consistent results beside resetting to fail-safe defaults. Once I do that, it comes back.
I'm stumped, any suggestions?
When I first installed everything I had no problems. My HD is SATAII which by default is run in legacy IDE mode. My DVD drive is IDE (it works great so I'm not going to upgrade until it dies).
Naturally, I do some tweaking in the BIOS for overclocking and such. Eventually, I notice that in POST, the DVD drive is no longer detected. I swap it out for a known good IDE HD and that isn't detected either. I return the BIOS to fail-safe defaults and suddenly it is recognized. So I start putting my BIOS back to how I had it set except I do one option at a time and reboot to see what is causing the problem. Eventually, I reboot and the drive isn't there. I go into the BIOS and change the last setting back and reboot...but the drive STILL isn't there. So I work backward, resetting the BIOS to stock one option at time. I can't get any consistent results beside resetting to fail-safe defaults. Once I do that, it comes back.
I'm stumped, any suggestions?