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High guys - not real sure if this is the right place to post this but here goes - I recently purchased the above motherboard (secondhand) but known to be working installed it in a new case with a 550 watt power supply and hooked it all up with new cables to my ide hard drive. It boots into the setup menu fine, but there is a problem when I try to set the boot sequence - it shows that the devices connected are disabled for some reason and I cannot find where to enable them. The motherboard used to have a sata drive installed - I dont know if this would have anything to do with it or not - any and all suggestions wellcome

When you looked in BIOS to see if your IDE HD is there it was there but shows disabled? Perhpas you need to go in to BIOS and disable SATA and enable IDE hard drives options in BIOS? Can't remember exact verbage that screen will show but I know it's there.

Hi Sparky, Thanks for your reply - unfortunately I have allready enabled IDE in the bios but it is still disabling both the IDE and optical drives - it reads them and puts them in the list but as a disabled unit

Did you start fresh with the BIOS settings? Or are you working off of what was set from the previous owner? Just curious...

Hi Sporg, Yes I did start afresh cleared all the old settings by removing the cmos battery - I cant update bios because although it recognises that my cd and hard drive are there it marks them as disabled - If only I knew where to enable them it would be great . Thanks

hey guys finally got it fixed - I had to insert a 5 second delay into the boot sequence so that it had time to recognise the hard drive - thank you all for your help