875pneo bios not recognising optical drives anymore ?

Hi all,
I have just swapped my sata drives for 2 new ide drives, only 1 ide drive is installed at the moment after a quick swap over with ghost. Everything seemed ok until I realised my 2 cd / dvd drives are no longer present in my computer ?
I have the new ide drive on channel 1 and the 2 cd drives as master and slave on channel 2 but the bios does not see them, I have just tried channel 3 and still the same. I altered the integrated peripherals setting from sata to pata and still no luck, am I right in saying that I should now have sata disabled and set it to pata only on both ?
Cant think why this is happening unless its to do with some old promise drivers hanging about.
Any ideas would be great.

hehe... probably in the first config you have some lose cable somewhere

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[SOLVED] BIOS not detecting USB Drives after i installed Arch

SOLVED: In BIOS under 'Advanced' disable 'Fast BIOS Mode'.
Original post:
Hi there!
I'm fairly new to the arch (and linux) scene and just setup my Samsung 530U3B with a brand new installation of arch. Everything went fine and the system is running flawlessly. Almost.
I just happend to notice that BIOS is not checking for USB drives anymore, it just somehow skips that part. If enter the boot selection, the bootable USB drive won't show up. Neither does it show up in BIOS setup. I tried to boot with the same USB drive that i used to install arch just yesterday, the live media does not boot - the drive doesn't even blink. The boot priority is set to usb drive first, the boot selection screen (hammering f10 during boot) doesn't give me any other option than to boot from the normal SSD. Also, prior to the arch installation (came with w7 installed) the BIOS screen would stay for about 2seconds and then proceed to boot - this doesn't happen anymore. When i press the power button greeted by the grub bootloader in about 1s.
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Last edited by araex (2012-07-26 16:57:47)

DSpider wrote:
The boot priority is set to usb drive first
Welcome to the forum.
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The USB stick doesn't show up at all. I set the priority as follows:
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6. NETWORK
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Last edited by adomas (2015-01-09 17:34:05)

[EDIT] I think problem is solved. Not sure how, but after reboot it works now
Thank you for you reply, Lone_Wolf
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Description : Feature-rich and easy to handle CD burning application
Architecture : x86_64
URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/k3b/
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Depends On : kdebase-runtime libkcddb libsamplerate libmad ffmpeg taglib libmpcdec libdvdread cdrkit
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vcdimager: for vcd burning support
transcode: for advanced mpeg conversion support
emovix: for bootable multimedia cd/dvd support
cdrdao: for disk-at-once (DAO) mode support [installed]
cdparanoia: for cd ripping support
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Optional For : None
Conflicts With : None
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Build Date : Thu 06 Nov 2014 05:21:31 AM EET
Install Date : Wed 07 Jan 2015 07:28:57 PM EET
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
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[root@voidbox adomas]#
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https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/141 … dialog.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/141 … ttings.png
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