by coadman on Fri Jan 09, 2004 12:08 am
Here's what I elected to try. The harddrive is on IDE1, so I installed the 411S as the primary master in IDE2.(I thought I'd wait and instal the cd burner later, as Im still finding items I want to copy and transfer over to the new computer). Anyway, I booted up the computer, the screen came up identifying Asus motherboard, and I briefly saw where the 411S was displayed as being found, then the display switched to the WinXP Pro screen. There are 3 squares in the middle of the screen that move to the right(Ive never had WinXP before, so bear with me). The squares made about three trips acroos the screen, then froze midway through. Didnt matter how long I waited, it was still froze. I rebooted computer, and received same results. I unplugged the IDE cable from the IDE2 slot, and rebooted. System came up fine, and I am using it now on the web as I type this. My question,,what do you think my problem is? I tried swapping to a differant IDE cable I had, but same results. Any ideas?
thanks,
coadman
UPDATE: The inital IDE2 connection I was using was on a card, so I disconnected from there and hooked it up to a IDE socket on the motherboard, there was a "black" and a "blue" one, I was told by an associate to use the "black"socket, so I did(I dont know if one is IDE1 and one IDE2, maybe you guys can tell me?) Anyway, I changed the jumper to primary slave on the DVD burner. Booted computer, and all works. Used the DVD drive to install the software that came with the unit. Now, if I go to install my CD burner, would I use the "blue" IDE socket or try the IDE2 socket on my card again?
thanks,
coadman