GA-P35-DS3R won't boot with IDE drive attached

I just bought a GA-P35-DS3R motherboard with a 2G dualcore2 processor
and 1G of memory. Everything was going fine until I installed the hard
drive. My CD-ROM reader boots okay, but when I install an IDE hard
drive on the IDE cable, my system hangs. This happened with 3 different
IDE hard drives so I am fairly sure that it is not the hard drives and I
was able to get one them working using an IDE/USB adapter cable. Does
this motherboard not work with IDE drives as its primary boot drive? I
have two SATA drives on order, but they have not arrived yet. This is
very frustrating and I hope someone can help me.

Z.K.

Z.K. wrote:
> I just bought a GA-P35-DS3R motherboard with a 2G dualcore2 processor
> and 1G of memory. Everything was going fine until I installed the hard
> drive. My CD-ROM reader boots okay, but when I install an IDE hard
> drive on the IDE cable, my system hangs. This happened with 3 different
> IDE hard drives so I am fairly sure that it is not the hard drives and I
> was able to get one them working using an IDE/USB adapter cable. Does
> this motherboard not work with IDE drives as its primary boot drive? I
> have two SATA drives on order, but they have not arrived yet. This is
> very frustrating and I hope someone can help me.
>
> Z.K.

Apparently, it does not matter, what type of IDE hard drive that I try,
every hard drive I try locks up the PC. I tried a PCI hard drive card
just in case the IDE controller was bad and that locked up the PC even
worse. It stopped at the memory check and I was not even able to turn
shut the computer off with the front power switch and had to turn off
the power supply switch. I will wait until I get my new SATA drives and
see what happens. I really hope I don't have a bad motherboard, but it
kind of sounds like I might.

Z.K.

Z.K. wrote:
> Z.K. wrote:
>> I just bought a GA-P35-DS3R motherboard with a 2G dualcore2 processor
>> and 1G of memory. Everything was going fine until I installed the
>> hard drive. My CD-ROM reader boots okay, but when I install an IDE
>> hard drive on the IDE cable, my system hangs. This happened with 3
>> different IDE hard drives so I am fairly sure that it is not the hard
>> drives and I was able to get one them working using an IDE/USB adapter
>> cable. Does this motherboard not work with IDE drives as its primary
>> boot drive? I have two SATA drives on order, but they have not
>> arrived yet. This is very frustrating and I hope someone can help me.
>>
>> Z.K.
>
> Apparently, it does not matter, what type of IDE hard drive that I try,
> every hard drive I try locks up the PC. I tried a PCI hard drive card
> just in case the IDE controller was bad and that locked up the PC even
> worse. It stopped at the memory check and I was not even able to turn
> shut the computer off with the front power switch and had to turn off
> the power supply switch. I will wait until I get my new SATA drives and
> see what happens. I really hope I don't have a bad motherboard, but it
> kind of sounds like I might.
>
> Z.K.

Some good news at least. The new SATA drives work just fine. So, maybe
this motherboard does not support IDE hard drives even though the manual
says that it does. A bit disappointing as I was planning on using at
least one 40G IDE drive in my new system.

Z.K.

On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 05:18:01 GMT, "Z.K." <nospam@nospam.net> wrote:

>Z.K. wrote:
>> Z.K. wrote:
>>> I just bought a GA-P35-DS3R motherboard with a 2G dualcore2 processor
>>> and 1G of memory. Everything was going fine until I installed the
>>> hard drive. My CD-ROM reader boots okay, but when I install an IDE
>>> hard drive on the IDE cable, my system hangs. This happened with 3
>>> different IDE hard drives so I am fairly sure that it is not the hard
>>> drives and I was able to get one them working using an IDE/USB adapter
>>> cable. Does this motherboard not work with IDE drives as its primary
>>> boot drive? I have two SATA drives on order, but they have not
>>> arrived yet. This is very frustrating and I hope someone can help me.
>>>
>>> Z.K.
>>
>> Apparently, it does not matter, what type of IDE hard drive that I try,
>> every hard drive I try locks up the PC. I tried a PCI hard drive card
>> just in case the IDE controller was bad and that locked up the PC even
>> worse. It stopped at the memory check and I was not even able to turn
>> shut the computer off with the front power switch and had to turn off
>> the power supply switch. I will wait until I get my new SATA drives and
>> see what happens. I really hope I don't have a bad motherboard, but it
>> kind of sounds like I might.
>>
>> Z.K.
>
>Some good news at least. The new SATA drives work just fine. So, maybe
>this motherboard does not support IDE hard drives even though the manual
>says that it does. A bit disappointing as I was planning on using at
>least one 40G IDE drive in my new system.
>
> Z.K.
Did you eliminate the possibility it is a cable problem? If the an
IDE CDR works from the port, it seems a stretch to image why a HDD
doesn't unless it is a cable problem. Would appreciate a response as
I am very interested in the same motherboard.

Edward W. Thompson wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 05:18:01 GMT, "Z.K." <nospam@nospam.net> wrote:
>
>> Z.K. wrote:
>>> Z.K. wrote:
>>>> I just bought a GA-P35-DS3R motherboard with a 2G dualcore2 processor
>>>> and 1G of memory. Everything was going fine until I installed the
>>>> hard drive. My CD-ROM reader boots okay, but when I install an IDE
>>>> hard drive on the IDE cable, my system hangs. This happened with 3
>>>> different IDE hard drives so I am fairly sure that it is not the hard
>>>> drives and I was able to get one them working using an IDE/USB adapter
>>>> cable. Does this motherboard not work with IDE drives as its primary
>>>> boot drive? I have two SATA drives on order, but they have not
>>>> arrived yet. This is very frustrating and I hope someone can help me.
>>>>
>>>> Z.K.
>>> Apparently, it does not matter, what type of IDE hard drive that I try,
>>> every hard drive I try locks up the PC. I tried a PCI hard drive card
>>> just in case the IDE controller was bad and that locked up the PC even
>>> worse. It stopped at the memory check and I was not even able to turn
>>> shut the computer off with the front power switch and had to turn off
>>> the power supply switch. I will wait until I get my new SATA drives and
>>> see what happens. I really hope I don't have a bad motherboard, but it
>>> kind of sounds like I might.
>>>
>>> Z.K.
>> Some good news at least. The new SATA drives work just fine. So, maybe
>> this motherboard does not support IDE hard drives even though the manual
>> says that it does. A bit disappointing as I was planning on using at
>> least one 40G IDE drive in my new system.
>>
>> Z.K.
> Did you eliminate the possibility it is a cable problem? If the an
> IDE CDR works from the port, it seems a stretch to image why a HDD
> doesn't unless it is a cable problem. Would appreciate a response as
> I am very interested in the same motherboard.

Yes, I tried a different cable and a different controller card. Also,
my DVD ROM works fine on the same cable and controller (the one on the
M/B). Also, I noticed I can't get my floppy drive to work either so I
am using USB floppy instead. I am not really sure what is going on at
this point, but my new SATA drives are working just fine.

Z.K.

Edward W. Thompson wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 05:18:01 GMT, "Z.K." <nospam@nospam.net> wrote:
>
>> Z.K. wrote:
>>> Z.K. wrote:
>>>> I just bought a GA-P35-DS3R motherboard with a 2G dualcore2 processor
>>>> and 1G of memory. Everything was going fine until I installed the
>>>> hard drive. My CD-ROM reader boots okay, but when I install an IDE
>>>> hard drive on the IDE cable, my system hangs. This happened with 3
>>>> different IDE hard drives so I am fairly sure that it is not the hard
>>>> drives and I was able to get one them working using an IDE/USB adapter
>>>> cable. Does this motherboard not work with IDE drives as its primary
>>>> boot drive? I have two SATA drives on order, but they have not
>>>> arrived yet. This is very frustrating and I hope someone can help me.
>>>>
>>>> Z.K.
>>> Apparently, it does not matter, what type of IDE hard drive that I try,
>>> every hard drive I try locks up the PC. I tried a PCI hard drive card
>>> just in case the IDE controller was bad and that locked up the PC even
>>> worse. It stopped at the memory check and I was not even able to turn
>>> shut the computer off with the front power switch and had to turn off
>>> the power supply switch. I will wait until I get my new SATA drives and
>>> see what happens. I really hope I don't have a bad motherboard, but it
>>> kind of sounds like I might.
>>>
>>> Z.K.
>> Some good news at least. The new SATA drives work just fine. So, maybe
>> this motherboard does not support IDE hard drives even though the manual
>> says that it does. A bit disappointing as I was planning on using at
>> least one 40G IDE drive in my new system.
>>
>> Z.K.
> Did you eliminate the possibility it is a cable problem? If the an
> IDE CDR works from the port, it seems a stretch to image why a HDD
> doesn't unless it is a cable problem. Would appreciate a response as
> I am very interested in the same motherboard.

I may have figured out what is going on with the IDE drives. There is
an option for the Gigabyte SATA connectors that can be set to SATA or
SATA/IDE and it was set for SATA. The manual does not really say much
about this or I missed it. I am hoping that this is the problem with
the IDE drives and I will let you know after I do some more testing if
it does in fact work. I don't really need IDE drives to work since I
have SATA drives now, but I would like everything to work as it should.

Z.K.

On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:47:27 GMT, "Z.K." <nospam@nospam.net> wrote:

>Edward W. Thompson wrote:
>> On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 05:18:01 GMT, "Z.K." <nospam@nospam.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Z.K. wrote:
>>>> Z.K. wrote:
>>>>> I just bought a GA-P35-DS3R motherboard with a 2G dualcore2 processor
>>>>> and 1G of memory. Everything was going fine until I installed the
>>>>> hard drive. My CD-ROM reader boots okay, but when I install an IDE
>>>>> hard drive on the IDE cable, my system hangs. This happened with 3
>>>>> different IDE hard drives so I am fairly sure that it is not the hard
>>>>> drives and I was able to get one them working using an IDE/USB adapter
>>>>> cable. Does this motherboard not work with IDE drives as its primary
>>>>> boot drive? I have two SATA drives on order, but they have not
>>>>> arrived yet. This is very frustrating and I hope someone can help me.
>>>>>
>>>>> Z.K.
>>>> Apparently, it does not matter, what type of IDE hard drive that I try,
>>>> every hard drive I try locks up the PC. I tried a PCI hard drive card
>>>> just in case the IDE controller was bad and that locked up the PC even
>>>> worse. It stopped at the memory check and I was not even able to turn
>>>> shut the computer off with the front power switch and had to turn off
>>>> the power supply switch. I will wait until I get my new SATA drives and
>>>> see what happens. I really hope I don't have a bad motherboard, but it
>>>> kind of sounds like I might.
>>>>
>>>> Z.K.
>>> Some good news at least. The new SATA drives work just fine. So, maybe
>>> this motherboard does not support IDE hard drives even though the manual
>>> says that it does. A bit disappointing as I was planning on using at
>>> least one 40G IDE drive in my new system.
>>>
>>> Z.K.
>> Did you eliminate the possibility it is a cable problem? If the an
>> IDE CDR works from the port, it seems a stretch to image why a HDD
>> doesn't unless it is a cable problem. Would appreciate a response as
>> I am very interested in the same motherboard.
>
>I may have figured out what is going on with the IDE drives. There is
>an option for the Gigabyte SATA connectors that can be set to SATA or
>SATA/IDE and it was set for SATA. The manual does not really say much
>about this or I missed it. I am hoping that this is the problem with
>the IDE drives and I will let you know after I do some more testing if
>it does in fact work. I don't really need IDE drives to work since I
>have SATA drives now, but I would like everything to work as it should.
>
> Z.K.

Much appreciate your update. Will look forward to the result of your
'test'. The SATA/IDE setting in the BIOS seems strange. My present
bpoard (Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Pro) doesn't have such a setting and
SATA, IDE and FDD all peacefully co-exist!

Edward W. Thompson wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:47:27 GMT, "Z.K." <nospam@nospam.net> wrote:
>
>> Edward W. Thompson wrote:
>>> On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 05:18:01 GMT, "Z.K." <nospam@nospam.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Z.K. wrote:
>>>>> Z.K. wrote:
>>>>>> I just bought a GA-P35-DS3R motherboard with a 2G dualcore2 processor
>>>>>> and 1G of memory. Everything was going fine until I installed the
>>>>>> hard drive. My CD-ROM reader boots okay, but when I install an IDE
>>>>>> hard drive on the IDE cable, my system hangs. This happened with 3
>>>>>> different IDE hard drives so I am fairly sure that it is not the hard
>>>>>> drives and I was able to get one them working using an IDE/USB adapter
>>>>>> cable. Does this motherboard not work with IDE drives as its primary
>>>>>> boot drive? I have two SATA drives on order, but they have not
>>>>>> arrived yet. This is very frustrating and I hope someone can help me.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Z.K.
>>>>> Apparently, it does not matter, what type of IDE hard drive that I try,
>>>>> every hard drive I try locks up the PC. I tried a PCI hard drive card
>>>>> just in case the IDE controller was bad and that locked up the PC even
>>>>> worse. It stopped at the memory check and I was not even able to turn
>>>>> shut the computer off with the front power switch and had to turn off
>>>>> the power supply switch. I will wait until I get my new SATA drives and
>>>>> see what happens. I really hope I don't have a bad motherboard, but it
>>>>> kind of sounds like I might.
>>>>>
>>>>> Z.K.
>>>> Some good news at least. The new SATA drives work just fine. So, maybe
>>>> this motherboard does not support IDE hard drives even though the manual
>>>> says that it does. A bit disappointing as I was planning on using at
>>>> least one 40G IDE drive in my new system.
>>>>
>>>> Z.K.
>>> Did you eliminate the possibility it is a cable problem? If the an
>>> IDE CDR works from the port, it seems a stretch to image why a HDD
>>> doesn't unless it is a cable problem. Would appreciate a response as
>>> I am very interested in the same motherboard.
>> I may have figured out what is going on with the IDE drives. There is
>> an option for the Gigabyte SATA connectors that can be set to SATA or
>> SATA/IDE and it was set for SATA. The manual does not really say much
>> about this or I missed it. I am hoping that this is the problem with
>> the IDE drives and I will let you know after I do some more testing if
>> it does in fact work. I don't really need IDE drives to work since I
>> have SATA drives now, but I would like everything to work as it should.
>>
>> Z.K.
>
> Much appreciate your update. Will look forward to the result of your
> 'test'. The SATA/IDE setting in the BIOS seems strange. My present
> bpoard (Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Pro) doesn't have such a setting and
> SATA, IDE and FDD all peacefully co-exist!

Lucky you. There are two SATA controllers on this board and at least
one of them acts as either a SATA controller or an IDE controller which
I think is the problem. If they had chosen to use a stand alone IDE
controller, I doubt there would be a problem or maybe it is the bios
that is the problem. In any case, I have everything working now except
for the floppy drive and I am able to use an external USB drive for that .

Usually, I don't have this kind of problem putting together a system,
but then I normally go with ASUS boards. I am not sure I will buy
another Gigabyte board, though it does seem to work OK other than the
setup problems and the floppy drive.

Z.K.

I assume u are using the supplied Gigabyte IDE cable.
The cable needs to have the master unit on the end connector, the
slave in the middle.
I usually do this but I read someplace that this was required and I
didn't believe it so I checked it out. It didn't work with the slave
on the end and I don't know why.
I don't think it used to be that way.

the other possibilities (as I found out also) is the drive jumpers not
set right. or the cable up side down.

<bill@love.ranch> wrote in message
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>I assume u are using the supplied Gigabyte IDE cable.
> The cable needs to have the master unit on the end connector, the
> slave in the middle.
> I usually do this but I read someplace that this was required and I
> didn't believe it so I checked it out. It didn't work with the slave
> on the end and I don't know why.
> I don't think it used to be that way.
>
> the other possibilities (as I found out also) is the drive jumpers not
> set right. or the cable up side down.

Black master, grey slave, blue/green mobo

Setting the drives for cable select might be the best option