IDE drive prevents computer from booting.

[David M]

I just got replacing an ASUS SK8N motherboard with an identical board. Two of my hard drives are SATA WD Raptor, 32 Gigs each in a RAID 1 configuration. The third drive is a IDE Western Digital 250Gig drive which is additional memory since the two Raptor drives are nearly full.

The computer boots just fine when only the Raptor drives are attached but when I attach the IDE drive the computer POST's fine but when the Windows XP Home screen appears the computer crashes. I tested out the IDE drive on another computer and it checks out fine. It has data on it from when I was using it from the previous motherboard...I don't know if that makes any difference though.

Is there something I need to do to keep the IDE drive from crashing the computer?

[thefultonhow]

Boot into Windows with the drive disconnected, go to the System control panel, Advanced, Settings under Startup and Recovery, and uncheck "Automatically restart" under the "System failure" area.

[David M]

That did not work....thanks for the help Fulton.

I decided to take one of the Raptor drives and load the OS on that. I bought a 250Gig SATA drive and will use that as my large storage drive. So what if the computer goes a fraction slower..at least it will be more reliable now.

No more messing with RAID for me...too much of a hassle. The next computer that goes south on me gets everything loaded onto one large hard drive. JBOD is much better than RAID in my limited experience with computers.

I still have an external 500Gig HD on a network that backs up my home computers.

[glc]

Now that you have a 250gb IDE drive with no home, get an external housing for it.