no detecation of third ide peripheral

[kamalkhandal]

Hi All,
I recentaly purchage intel D945GCL + intel c2d 2.4Ghz.The Problem is,it dosent detect third IDE.It works fine with a hard disk and a DVD Writer or Two HDD.When I connect all three,Either it dosent boot or few vertical lines appears on the screen.
Plz somone help me.

[ratNukit]

sounds like the mainboard isn't working right
might want to send that back and get a new one

that would be my guess

[martini161]

do you have them all connected with one ide cable? or is it a 2 hard drives on one, a dvd on the other?>

[DMB2000uk]

How are you connecting 3 IDE devices?

The board only has one parallel port, and one parallel cable can only support 2 IDE devices.

Dan

[kamalkhandal]

Hi All,
I recentaly purchage intel D945GCL + intel c2d 2.4Ghz.The Problem is,it dosent detect third IDE.It works fine with a hard disk and a DVD Writer or Two HDD.When I connect all three,Either it dosent boot or few vertical lines appears on the screen.
Plz somone help me.

Currantly I am using 2 sata hard drives and a SATA DVD Writer.My MOBO Supports 4 SATA & 2 PATA peripharals.
All was ok when I was using 3Ghz Dual Core Processor with this board.Is it possible that 2.4 Core 2 Duo is causing problems?

[bmaverick]

So, you're mixing a few IDE drives and SATA drives on this board eh? That's always something to cause the MOBO a little confusion. Does your manual state how many IDE+SATA devices can work at the same time?

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So, you're mixing a few IDE drives and SATA drives on this board eh? That's always something to cause the MOBO a little confusion. Does your manual state how many IDE+SATA devices can work at the same time?

That shouldn't be a problem. SATA and IDE can coexist peacefully . IDE is usually considered the first set of masters, depending on how many IDEs there are.

Speaking of masters, I would check each one to see if they work properly. And reset cmos too. But when it comes all down to it, unless there's a bios update, I'm going with the first reply: RMA the board.