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I want to slave an old IDE HD but comp. tries to boot from it...

Airbus Pilot

Airbus Pilot

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Processor AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Dual Core @1.4v (OC'd from 2.5 to 2.95))
Motherboard M3A32-MVP *Bios 1202 (310x9.5)
Cooling Stock + case fans
Memory 2x1GB Crucial Ballistix 8500 CL5 (1066mhz) s.sided **RMA'd new version 2.0v on their way!
Video Card(s) eVga's e-Geforce 9600 GT OC Edition
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Power Supply Ace Power 450W
Greetings,

I have an AMD system with an M3A32-MVP board. Currently I have one SATA HD connected. I have an old IDE HD I want to connect to the system temporarily to back up some data. Problem is, when I connect it and fire up, system recognizes it properly (Primary Slave) but it attempts to boot from this HD rather than my SATA. :cry:

What am I doing wrong? :twitch:

The BIOS shows this

Primary Master (IDE): my DVD burner
Primary Slave (IDE): The old HD I just hooked up
Sata HD 1: The main HD of the computer.

I have the jumper on the old HD set to slave/spare.

Thanks guys&gals

:rockout:
 
You have to go into the BIOS, and change the boot order.
 
Thanks, I actually just stumbled on it. Even though, it was setup as slave, I found under the 'Boot Priority' tab that it was placing the IDE to boot now instead of the SATA. Not sure why it defaulted to this, but it was easily changed here. I think it has to do with the BIOS numbering the IDE devices before the SATA devices, even though it's jumpered to slave.

Thanks for the quick response.:toast:
 
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