Diane,
Diane,
>I had to move the CD burner a couple of slots lower
So your IDE card is a plug in rather than on the motherboard?
Haven't seen that in quite awhile. Since hard disk and CD interface
hardware is nothing fancy there's no big deal if they just include
it on the mother board. Video and Audio cards are different.
Peop;le want choices of these cards these days.
> plug on the MB. Then I plugged the HDs into the Primary slot. At this
> point, I didn't do anything with the HDs other than switching the
> position of where they were plugged on the MB.
OK, I guess I misinterpreted what you said above. I would always plug
the hard drive into the primary, master slot. It probably doesn't make any
difference these days but I alwasys think of that slot bein the first one
that the bios looks to for an OS.
> When I booted it went through the usual startup stuff--to a point. It
> came up with some deal about Maxtor being the primary drive and WD
> being the secondary--which was wrong.
The bios doesn't lie. It knows where those drives are plugged. OR they
know how they are jumpered. If the WD had the OS on it then I think
you may have to change the jumpers, make certain that the drive with
the OS on it is a master. If there is no slave than it often doesn't matter
where
the drive is plugged in and how it is jumpered. At least I have had a drive
that showed up in the bios as a slave yet it still booted. But as I said,
I always stick with hard drives on the Primary chain and the one with
the OS on the master. I put the optical drives on the Secondary chain,
I guess the order ther doesn't matter much, except I generally put the
top drive as Master. Probably a bit anal. But conventions like that
can save a lot of grief.
> XP is on the WD and it was plugged into the end of the cable.
In most cases the position on the cable doesn't matter unless you
jumper the drive as 'cable select'. The jumpers are what determine
thich drive is Master.
> changed the WD to primary. (Maybe I should't have done that.)
It probably won't matter, next time you boot it will go where the
jumpers tell it. I think that changing the drives as I described above
will solbe any boot problems. But it's late and someone probably has
told you this already.
Jim
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