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Processor | AMD 5600+ Dual Core 2.8Ghz |
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Motherboard | ASUS Crosshair Socket AM2 |
Cooling | 3 x 80mm Case Fans |
Memory | 2 x 1Gb Crucial Ballistix DDR2 PC2-6400 |
Video Card(s) | XFX 7950GT XXX Edition 610/1600 |
Storage | 120Gb Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 8mb Cache |
Display(s) | LG FLatron 17" CRT 795FT+ |
Case | Songcheer Super Wide Midi Tower |
Audio Device(s) | ASUS SupremeFX HD Audio |
Power Supply | PC Power & Cooling SILENCER 750 QUAD |
Software | WinXP Pro + SP2 +All Critical Win Updates |
Seeing as my mobo only has 1 IDE connector, i've put my optical drives on it and decided to use an A-Bit Hotrod Pro 100 Raid card as an IDE Controller for my HDD's as it doesn't support optical drives.
I can use my boot drive on the IDE card no problem, system boots up to XP. However, if I connect my other 2 HDD's as Master/Slave to the Secondary channel then I get Disk Boot Failure! No matter what I do, the system will only boot with 1 HDD connected to the card!
The BIOS on the mobo defaults to the IDE card as the first Hard Disk boot device (found as SCSI-0 HPT370/372) as there are no HDD's connected to the mobo. I can set a boot drive in the cards BIOS but this still won't allow booting with 2 or more HDD's connected?
Is this because it's a RAID card and if more than 1 drive is connected it expects it to be a RAID array? if so, does this mean I CANNOT get this to work with 3 separate HDD's. I have 2 x 120GB Seagate Baracudas and 1 x 60GB Hitachi Deskstar I want to use.
Any ideas please?
I can use my boot drive on the IDE card no problem, system boots up to XP. However, if I connect my other 2 HDD's as Master/Slave to the Secondary channel then I get Disk Boot Failure! No matter what I do, the system will only boot with 1 HDD connected to the card!
The BIOS on the mobo defaults to the IDE card as the first Hard Disk boot device (found as SCSI-0 HPT370/372) as there are no HDD's connected to the mobo. I can set a boot drive in the cards BIOS but this still won't allow booting with 2 or more HDD's connected?
Is this because it's a RAID card and if more than 1 drive is connected it expects it to be a RAID array? if so, does this mean I CANNOT get this to work with 3 separate HDD's. I have 2 x 120GB Seagate Baracudas and 1 x 60GB Hitachi Deskstar I want to use.
Any ideas please?