Hello All,

I recently bought a new motherboard GIGABYTE GA-965P-S3 with a E6400. I am trying to connect my CD drive and HDD with the IDE cable provided with the motherboard. I set the HDD to master and the CD drive to slave but nothing ever shows up under the bios.

Someone give me some advise please.

Hi Jav, welcome to the PCHF.

Try connecting the 2 drives to seperate IDE channels. Or try another cable.

This motherboard only has one IDE port.

Hrmmm....
Are you able to try a different IDE cable?

I would have to buy another cable tomorrow. I hope that fixes it. Thanks.

No problems.
Before you go out and spend more money (they're fairly cheap anyway)...try removing 1 of the drives and see if it will connect the other one as a single drive.

You might need to alter the jumper settings to "single drive" or "cable select"

So I tried to just connect the harddrive on it's own and it found it then I tried to connect the cd drive on its own and it found it. Now I connected both of them and have the hardrive set to master and cd drive set to slave but it only lets me use one at a time. When I run the Windows Vista cd, it doesn't find the harddrive.