First post, so go easy on me please
I have a problem! I've got an ASUS Crosshair mobo that only has 1 onboard IDE connector but I have this A-Bit Hotrod Pro 100 PCI IDE Raid card that I've used in my previous system as an extra IDE Controller (not using it as a RAID Controller) as I have 5 IDE Devices, 2 x DVD and 3 x HDD. This worked great to hang my 3rd HDD off and got it working in both XP and Vista (32Bit version).
Now I've built my new system, I have to plug both my DVD drives into the onboard IDE (the RAID card is for HDD's only) and put all 3 HDD's on the RAID card, problem is the system won't boot from the RAID card if the boot drive is connected with the other 2 HDD's? Disconnect the 2 extra HDD's (both formatted as DATA drives, no boot partition) then the main boot drive can boot into XP?
The BIOS on the RAID card (latest version 2.351) can be set to say which is the boot drive, but setting the Primary Master as the boot drive still won't allow the system to boot if I connect either 1 or 2 of my extra drives. Even putting them both on the Secondary channel as Master/Slave and leaving the my boot drive as Primary Master the system won't boot.
It's doing my head in
Anyone have a clue as what could be the problem please?