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  1. 02 Jun 2012 #1
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    BIOS and hard drive

    I have just installed Vista on a older machine (Gigabyte GA-8SIMLNF board) and the hard drive is recognised as a slave IDE device in the first section of the BIOS screen and the optical also recognised a a slave IDE device.

    However in the boot config the hard drive is not listed or is an option and boot goes through various screens before finally "deciding" that the hard drive is the only device that the machine can boot from.

    I prepared the drive by so the tutorial on setting up an SSD and the install and updates have taken me over eight hours to get onto the drive.

    Am I supposed to jumper this drive, doing something wrong, or is the machine just simply too old? I am beginning t think the latter as I cannot find any drivers for the audio either.


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    Re: BIOS and hard drive

    With IDE drives you either jumper it as Cable Select, or you jumper it as either Master or Slave
    I have no faith in Cable Select, so I suggest that you jumper it for Master.
    Then you make sure that it's on the far end of the IDE cable (and make sure you're using 80 wire cables - not 40 wire). The middle connector is for the slave.

    Do the same for the optical drive.

    I don't have much faith in installing SSD's on older systems - as the controllers (on the mobo) weren't designed with them in mind.

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