mark_mat

hey all, i have a MSI Neo 875P board and have used the 2 IDE slots for 2 cd rom's and 2 hard drives and have space for 2 sata drives. but...i cant for the life of me work out how to detect this...been into BIOS and it mentions 3rd ide master/slave but surely this doesnt relate to sata..?! any idea's?! many thanks dudes

hey thanks for the replies guys.. i found out how: i went into the BIOS and enabled the sata option to enable, then went to device manager and found the drive, formatted etc and is working like a dream! i have 3 hdd's now, partitioned into 5! never be too safe!! thanks again, this site is the best for tech issues for sure.. )

hmmm, doesnt sound good! if you know BIOS, i would personally go into the bios and look at the boot up menu and order they are in. make sure that the cd drive is not first in the list and your hard drive is. i doubt its hardware compatibility issues tho if it all worked b4 sp2. maybe get a copy of sp1 and turn off the autoupdates. sorry cant be any more help.