cant connect to ide1 on bx6 r2

[Frump]

i recently bought an abit bx6 r2 mobo and it halts after detecting whatever device i hook up to ide1. i have a WD 33600 6.4g HD and a toshiba 3rd gen. dvd both installed on ide2 now. obviously, this presents an upgradability problem. i have sent the board back, and they sent me a new one saying i have a bad HD; but it doesnt work either. but i have tried just the dvd, just the HD, and two HD's on ide1 and it still does not work correctly.

the symptoms exaclty is this: i have auto detect enabled in bios, it detects correctly what is attatched to ide1 and ide2, then halts. i turn off auto detect in bios and have it find the devices attached and saved in bios, and on boot, it scans memory then halts.

any answers?

frump

[philipg]

I'm having a similar problem and I think if you put the jumper on the new drive as single drive should let you detect it no problem. My problem is I keep getting data corruption on my WD 6.4GB drive. I have ez-bios installed because of the bios limitations.

[kec95]

Definitly a Jumper problem on the drive itself. Look at the drive for Single drive jumper config, and set it to that.

If I'm not mistaken.The Jumper should:

While holding the drive in your hand, Jumpers facing you. Look at the pin in the top right hand corner. Skip that one and put the jumper on the next 2 top ones. Pins 2 & 3 from the top right. none of the bottom pins should be covered. Just the top 2 & 3 pins from right to left.


Good Luck.

Kenny C

[800XL]

My experience with WD drives says this: Jumper on master=there is a slave, Jumper on slave=there is a master, jumper on neither=single drive. The single drive setting for WD drives is usually just a jumper storage position, meaning it connects ground to ground or something that does nothing.

If you have things working on IDE2, unplug the cable from IDE2 and plug into IDE1. If it does not work, jumpers/cabling is likely not the problem. You could have an IRQ conflict going on. What other cards are in the system? If something managed to snag IRQ 15 then it would step on IDE1 and likely cause similar symptoms. Most likely suspects would be any PCI cards you have in the system. If you have it booting into Windows, open up control panel, system, device manager tab. Select computer, then hit properties. You should see a list of IRQs and what device is on them. See what has IRQ 15. It should be an IDE controller. If not, the device there is your problem child, or if nothing (Or IRQ holder for PCI steering has it) it is something you don't have a windows driver loaded for.

Another thing that springs to mind is that something on the backside of your board could be shorting to the case. Make sure you don't have some screw stud or something sticking up behind the board and causing your headaches.

[Frump]

thx guys. 800xl, you were right about something touching the MB. i have an inwin case, and it has a grounding screw that connects underneath the MB i assumed thats where it belonged; but instead it was shorting it out. i removed the screw and it works perfectly now.

frump