🚀 go-pugleaf

Has anyone obtain a Gigabyte GA-8I945PL-G + Pent D 930 combo from Fry's  
and have a successfull window boot
 from IDE hard drive (no SATA drive)?

I put the system together over the weekend and run into a problem. I was  
wonder if anyone has this issue.

Configuration:
- a PATA hd is connected on IDE1 configured as master
- Only a CDrom is connected on IDE2 as master (IDE2 & 3 are RAID only).  
IDE3 is not use.
- IDE1 master hd is set to boot device in bios
- no SATA is use and controller is disable in bios
with this config and boot from CDrom, install window on the master hd on  
IDE1 is successful but when system
reboot at the point window splash screen should show up, a BSOD shows up  
instead. system complain the disk
may have virus or data corruption. The hd itself is confirmed functional  
and can be boot from another system.

Another config:
- a PATA hd is connected on IDE1 configured as master
- a CDrom is connected on IDE1 config as slave
- IDE2 & IDE3 are not used.
- IDE1 master hd is set to boot device in bios
- no SATA is use and controller is disable in bios
with this config and boot from CDrom, install window on the master hd on  
IDE1 is successful. When system
reboot, it pass all the usual POST, ram check, drive scan. At the end of  
the devices and IRQ initiallization
(still in boot process), the system hang indefinite with no error feedback.

Something worth to be noticed: booting from CDrom and floppy are never a  
problem. I even exchange for
another motherboard thinking that the board is buggy, but this does not  
solve the problem. I also flash the
bios to the current code provided by Gigabyte, still no go. What give?

Tam N.

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