buckeyemma
12-02-2007, 09:48 PM
Hey guys, I just rebuilt my PC and I'm having issues with it booting up correctly.
First of all, I have 2 optical drives and 2 internal HDD's. Because of how the case is laid out, as well as the motherboard only having 1 IDE channel, I had to buy a PCI card with an extra 2 IDE channels.
Because of distance from the connections, I had to connect the HDD's to the PCI IDE controller (showing up as channel 4). The 2 optical drives are on the primary IDE channel connected to the motherboard.
So anyhow, when I turn the pc on it won't boot from the HDDs. It will search for devices, show that the primary channel is a DVD-RW drive, and then kick back to the black screen saying that the system configuration has changed since last boot and gives me the option of starting in safe mode or reverting back to the last successful configuration.
All I can figure is that having the HDDs on the PCI IDE controller at Channel 4 is creating problems. But with the case and motherboard configuration, that's the only way I could connect the drives. Is there a way to change what channel is booted from or am I missing a more obvious solution?
First of all, I have 2 optical drives and 2 internal HDD's. Because of how the case is laid out, as well as the motherboard only having 1 IDE channel, I had to buy a PCI card with an extra 2 IDE channels.
Because of distance from the connections, I had to connect the HDD's to the PCI IDE controller (showing up as channel 4). The 2 optical drives are on the primary IDE channel connected to the motherboard.
So anyhow, when I turn the pc on it won't boot from the HDDs. It will search for devices, show that the primary channel is a DVD-RW drive, and then kick back to the black screen saying that the system configuration has changed since last boot and gives me the option of starting in safe mode or reverting back to the last successful configuration.
All I can figure is that having the HDDs on the PCI IDE controller at Channel 4 is creating problems. But with the case and motherboard configuration, that's the only way I could connect the drives. Is there a way to change what channel is booted from or am I missing a more obvious solution?