SOLVED Abit AB9 Pro IDE Cdrom Boot

[CrashnBrn]

Hey guys,

 

Just put together my unRAID box. I am using the AB9 Pro and for the life of me cannot get it to boot from an IDE cdrom drive. It boots fine from a sata drive, but when I put an IDE drive in there, I can't see it in the bios. I am guessing that I missed an option somewhere the the bios. The bios is flashed to version 22. I'm hoping that the board is not bad!

 

Any ideas?

 

Specs below:

 

Intel Core 2 E2180

Abit AB9 Pro

4gb G.Skill pc6400

Centurion590

Corsair 525w PSU

5x iStarUSA 5.25 Bays (the same ones WeeboTech has)

2x 1tb

1x 750gb

1x 250gb

 

Thanks

 

Problem solved. Thanks!

 

 

[WeeboTech]

Not sure this is the answer, but what mode is the JMICRON controller in?

AHCI, IDE, RAID.. Perhaps switch one of those around. (I'm reaching here, but this is what I would check if I were infront of the machine).

 

At the very least you should see the drive in boot order priority screen.

 

[CrashnBrn]

All of the options that had IDE in it were set to IDE. I'll try switching modes after the diagnostic I'm doing is done. I want to unplug all of the sata and try with just an ide drive and see what happens. It could have been that I was trying to get it working at 3am and was a bit tired

 

I hope that it's not a bad controller.

 

Thanks for the idea as well as the case and trays WeeboTech, I pretty much copied what you had going

[SSD]

I thought I read elsewhere that this was a known issue (unable to use an IDE CDROM drive) with that MB when SATA drives were installed.  Sorry but I don't have the MB and don't exactly remember the issue. Search and you might find something.

 

I am a little confused, though.  Why are you trying to boot from a CDROM for unRAID.  You should be booting from the USB stick.  Am I missing something?

[CrashnBrn]

I thought I read elsewhere that this was a known issue (unable to use an IDE CDROM drive) with that MB when SATA drives were installed.  Sorry but I don't have the MB and don't exactly remember the issue. Search and you might find something.

 

I am a little confused, though.  Why are you trying to boot from a CDROM for unRAID.  You should be booting from the USB stick.  Am I missing something?

 

I figured out why I was unable to boot from IDE, for some reason the brand new ASUS IDE able was bad. When I swapped it for an old cable out of an emachine it booted right up. Doh!

 

I was booting from a cd in order to run a diagnostic to check and make sure that all my components were in working condition. I believe that the issues with the IDE cd drive problem were fixed with the bios 22 update.