Can someone please help me with this problem. When I try booting up my computer the bios doesn't detect any of my IDE drives, It just says NONE on all drives. I do have a SATA board... And In the post screen when it boots up it picks up the SATA first saying they are not set to master and slave then it picks up the IDE with NONE on all the drives. Sometimes after about a good hour after leavening the computer on in the post screen, I re-boot and it picks up all three drives, (Hard drive and two roms).
When I turn off the computer I am back to square one. Its so frustrating... I have tried auto detecting the drives and also tried manually. What comes up in the post screen is: "Verifying DMI pool data... Disk boot failure, Insert system disk and press enter".



IDE Channel 0 Master [ None ]
IDE Channel 0 Slave [ None ]
IDE Channel 1 Master [ None ]
IDE Channel 1 Slave [ None ]

Motherboard: GigaByte technology co ltd, Ga-8s661fxmp-rz
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: Award modular bios v6.00pg 09/27/04
Chipset: sis661 rev17
CPU: Celeron 2.00GHZ
Windows XP Home Edition
Nvidia Geforce 4 MX 440
WD 80gb Hard Drive
Memory: 1024mb on slot A1

Thanks Mark

is this a custom built?

Here is what I'm up to. I have since disabled my two DVD - ROMs drives and just left the
hard drive and the floppy drive installed with the IDE cables and the power
leads. The computer BOOTS up perfect but when I reset one or the two DVD ROM drives
the computer doesn't find any IDE drives and its back to a [None] Boot. My
power supply is 350 watts. What would this be?

Can you please verify the exact setup of your drives.

Do you have a SATA drive installed?

As to the Primary & Secondary IDE: is the hard drive the Primary Master? The DVD's Secondary Master & slave?

It would appear that the BIOS is looking for the wrong boot device or the boot menu is set to SATA which would annul your IDE hard drive but shouldn't affect the DVD's unless the configuration is strange.

Is this a new setup? Was it ever working before?

jephree... I don’t have SATA drives installed but the motherboard is set up for SATA.
The setup of my drives is:
HARD DRIVE Primary master IDE 0
DVD Rom is Secondary Master IDE 1
DVD-W is secondary Slave IDE 1
It is a new setup and it has worked. But when I turned the computer off and tried to start it up the following day that is when my problems started…

In a brief search I see this issue as possibly a PSU fault. I would try different configurations though:

Hard Drive: Primary Master

DVD-W: Secondary Master
DVD-ROM: Secondary slave

Verify the jumpers.

I would also check the BIOS Setup: especially the boot menu. If SATA is enabled disable it.

As to that error here are some other ideas:

http://www.duxcw.com/faq/computer/dmi.html

Also: do you have SP1 or 2 on that XP? Probably not relevant at this level but...

Where in the BIOS do you disable the SATA.

I can't seem to download your board's manual at the moment:

http://www.giga-byte.com/Download/Do...1fxm(-f)_e.pdf

But on my own board it would be in the Boot Menu & or the General screen where your drives are listed.

Have you checked out my articles in the FAQs section about this type of problem?

http://www.d-a-l.com/articles/library/3.html

http://www.d-a-l.com/articles/library/19.html

The first thing that I would try now, after what you've already done, is to swap the Primary and Secondary IDE cables. It's very quick and easy and will hopefully tell you if you have a faulty cable on the Secondary channel.

Hope that helps