Problem with UT250Gb SATA

[mystifmagic]

I have four IDE HDDs that take up all the IDE ports, so I used IDE-to-SATA adapters for my CDRW and DVD-R drives (their abit brand). On my epox this setup worked find (4 HDDs on IDE and 2 opticals on SATA), but it doesn't work correctly with my 250Gb board.

If I plug the two optical drives into the SATA ports (1&2 or 3&4) it sees the drives in the BIOS, but when XP starts to boot the "loading XP screen" (with the loading bar) takes a very long time to show up, and when it finally does the system boots normally. When I get into XP it only shows one optical drive. If I disconnect the drives the loading screen comes up immediately (no delay) and everything works fine.

Any ideas on how to remedy this?



Sepcs:

A64 3200+
DFI UT 250Gb w/Oskar's 10/15
2x512Mb Kingston PC3000 (Hyper-X, Bh-5)
ATI Radeon 9800NP
2x120Gb Maxtor - 2x60Gb Maxtor (both ATA)
Lite-On 52x CDRW, NEC 2500A

all stock speeds, no OC

 

[roby972]

i have the same problem (long time showing xp logo)
the problem for me was in the ide connector of 1 of my 3 ide hd (a metal joint trunked)
i substitue the hd with another

sorry for my english

 

[mavphoto1]

hummm, are u overclocking this puppy???
If u are ,raise the voltage of chipset to 1.9v
It fixed my boot problems.