Bios Question

[Roland Deschain]

Hi guys,

I'm having a huge problems with my DVD-Drive. I need to unplug it so that windows starts for some reason. My friend told me to disable the IDE-2 channel (secondary) from bios, to see if that does anything.

However, if I go into bios, all I can do is disable secondary master and slave, but I can't find the option that allows me to disable IDE-2 totally. I am overlooking something.

Please help it is getting really annoying. PS: I have an Asus motherboard.

PPS: Is the option in the advance tab, in the main tab, any help would be greatly apprechiated.

Thanks.

 

[SAJ]

Your dvd will be either a master or a slave, so if disabling one doesnt work then it will be the other.
Alternatively, go into device manager and disable your drive from there.

 

[Roland Deschain]

That's what I thought. But is there a option that disables the entire IDE cable, rather than me disabling the master and the slave seperatly (both my DVD drives are on the secondary)

 

[Glirk Dient]

Open your case and un plug it? Why do you need to un plug it at all even?

 

[giant384]

how do u know that the dvd drive is the cause of not starting up?????? ive never heard of unplugging the dvd drive for it to work is a friend telling you to do this and hes guessing? if windows isnt starting up it might be the hardrive not a cd/dvd drive

 

[Drackard]

Never heard of a DVD-Drive preventing windows from starting :| ..... i agree with Giant though it may be the HDD more then anything.

 

[3ssence]

Just open the case and unplug both of the drives, then they will no longer be present in the bios, et voila, you have no dvd drives.

 

[TechnoHippyChic]

Check the jumpers on the DVD drives, if they're both set to master, for example, it can hang on boot for a long time...

 

[DEATH eVADER]

Is windows not working?

I had a similar problem, the first place I would check are the jumpers on the HDD, what are they set to? What settings are there?

 

[Roland Deschain]

Figured it out, there's this godamn pin on the back of both my DVD drives and it set them both to master for some reason.

 

[3ssence]

those would be the jumpers that were mentioned above

:E