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Windows XP/2000 - PC Regulary Cant Find Sata Hard Drive posted in the Operating Systems forums; I have a ECS Geforce6100SM-M and I have two IDE drives and two SATA drives. I only have one hard drive which is running windows xp Sometimes when booting my ...

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I have a ECS Geforce6100SM-M and I have two IDE drives and two SATA drives. I only have one hard drive which is running windows xp

Sometimes when booting my PC the IDE drives are found and the BIOS freezes on finding the SATA drives. After about 2 minutes it tries to boot using Nvidia local area network because it cant find the hard drive with the OS. This always happens when I restart my pc, the only way of detecting the hard drive if this happens is switching the pc off from the mains for a couple of minutes and then it boots fine.

This is driving me crazy , ive replaced the sata cable with a high quality one but still have the same problem. My hard drive is a 160GB Samsung Spinpoint

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Hello and welcome to PC Help Forum.

Well I would firstly enter BOIS/Setup and check in there what you have setup for your hard drives.Do you have cable select chosen in there or another choice?

You can also turn off LAN boot in BIOS/Setup.

I am sure this maybe a BIOS setup problem.


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What do you mean by cable select, ive just chosen my first boot device as hard drive and the I have chosen to boot the OS from my samsung from bios

I also think its a BIOS problem but im reluctant to flash my BIOS because my last mobo


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cable select:Configuration Using Cable Select PC Hell: Master/Slave Settings vs. Cable Select when Connecting IDE Hard Drives

You are using a combination of IDE and SATA drives have you selected auto detect in BIOS?Or another?

Wich is set as first boot?An IDE or a SATA hard drive?

Please could I have a little bit more information on the hard drive setup?

I do not think you need to flash BIOS.

I think your setup in BIOS is not set right please could you check it,thankyou.



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I have two IDE Drivers, one Liteon DVDROM and Pioneer DVDRW
I have two SATA Drives, one pioneer DVDRW and Samsung 160GB Hard Drive

Im pretty sure auto detect is enabled, my first boot is hard drive. There is no option to boot IDE or SATA first. Also i can select which hard drive if more then one i want to boot
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Well have you set cable select on your rom drives?Rather then set them to master and slave?

The little plastic jumpers.

When you into BIOS you have boot orders or priorities,turn off the lan boot.

Is SATA hard drive in port 0?On your mainboard?


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