Just what the title says. This happened when I was trying to add a sata dvd writer to the pc. Terrible mobo. Asus p5ne. Three sata ports and I get a blue screen if I try to use one with a sata dvd player. I have two hard drives one the old IDE version with the pins, and then another with sata. I can't boot the PC off of the sata HD even though that's the one with VISTA ultimate x64 and it runs fine once it comes up with the dual boot screen. I select the vista option and the pc runs fine.
The problem occurs when I try and add a sata DVD drive. I've gone into the setup screen when the PC starts up and messed with all the startups and basically the thing won't take a sata dvd player. I checked multiple articles on this MOBO and no help. I can't update the BIOS, because I don't have a floppy disk. I tried burning it to a DVD but the setup only takes A:\ and C:\. Too bad the C;\ is useless cause if I save the bios to the c:\ and try to access the c:\ on the bios update screen it won't access it. I'm really getting pissed because the MOBO has two useless sata ports. my BIOS version is actually the most stable according to many forums.
Specs for the PC
asus p5ne mobo
6 gb of ddr2 ram
q6600 quad core processor
gts8500 video card.
320gb sata hard drive
80gb ide hard drive
Vista Ultimate x64
One reason you can't boot off of the sata hard drive is that the boot files and mbr entries are placed on the ide drive by default when going to install any version of Windows with an ide drive present. EIDE overrides Sata by default. To make the sata drive bootable you first have to unplug the ide drive and then install Vista on the sata.
With an ide hard drive present the other thing that comes into play is seeing the ide drive automatically set as the default boot device in the bios setup. When going into the bios>boot or boot order section highlight "hard drives" and press the enter key to bring up the list of hard drives(internal, external) installed or plugged in.
Then move the sata to the top of that list and press F10 or use the exit and save option when going to leave. That will set the sata as the default boot drive.
Ok. That makes sense. what about my sata dvd drive. I unpluged the ide one. Put this on there, and it won't make it into vista. It gives me the BSOD. Once in a while it'll go all the way through but eventually it'll give me the bsod.
Besides a bad drive I think you will find a Windows related problem is more likely the cause rather then the board for that. Are you starting Windows with any disk left in the dvd drive?
The initial startup may be trying to load off of the disk or you may be seeing the result of a memory problem or faulty device driver resulting in the BSOD. The first thing to do there however is taking notes on any information presented when a blue screen of death comes up. The information seen there usually points to the cause with a driver or error code to look up.
