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Old 02-04-2005, 01:52 AM   #1
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IDE Controller Problems
I recently bought a SYBA Ultra ATA IDE Controller Card from newegg.com so I can use my PATA hard drives with the motherboard that I am going to get. I installed the card, went to boot up, but after the POST it went to a black screen and never loaded Windows. I tried moving the card to a different PCI slot but that didn't work either. Any ideas on what is wrong or do you think that it is just a defective card?
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Old 02-04-2005, 01:57 AM   #2
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Is your boot drive on the IDE controller card? If it is, try going into the BIOS and change the first boot device to SCSI.

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Old 02-04-2005, 02:55 AM   #3
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Is your boot drive on the IDE controller card?
No, my boot drive is on the mobo, and when I had the IDE controller in the computer nothing was conected to it.
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Old 02-05-2005, 09:28 PM   #4
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try going into the BIOS and change the first boot device to SCSI.
I don't understand that lol Why SCSI? He/she has PATA. Unless of course PATA is native to SCSI and I never knew, or maybe just something else that I'm missing.
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Old 02-05-2005, 09:38 PM   #5
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Many bioses see PCI IDE controller cards as a SCSI device, and require that SCSI be in the boot sequence to boot from the card.
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SCSI is not an option on the boot list on my mobo. Also I just decided to get a better card anyway. I got a Promise card and it is working just fine. Thanks guys.
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Many bioses see PCI IDE controller cards as a SCSI device, and require that SCSI be in the boot sequence to boot from the card.
Aaah, I see. Thanks for the insight glc I would ask why that is the case but I would be taking the thread away from it's topic, so I'll do some research on it.
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