[915 Series] BIOS INDICATES MASTER DRIVE ON PRIMARY IDE IS ON THIRD IDE MASTER

Hope someone can explain this one...
I have one hard drive installed on the primary ide channel of the motherboard and the bios recognizes it at the master on the third ide channel.
Specs: Intel P4 3.0 (LGA 775) Prescott on a MSI 915P/G Combo motherboard w/1gig of ram.
Setup: Three ide channels (connectors) on the motherboard...primary (blue), secondary and third (yellow)
My hard drive is connected to the primary (blue) and jumped as master, optical drives are on the second and third channels both jumped as masters (because they're on seperate channels, no sharing of the cables)
When I First installed the hard drive, without the optical drive installed yet, the bios said it was on the third channel and set as master even though it was installed on the primary (first channel) with nothing installed on the first or second channels....after I installed the optical drives on the second and third channels....the bios still shows the hard drive installed as the third, with nothing on the first and second channels.
I have the lates bios and drivers installed and Windows XP shows the hard drive as disk 0 (first).
I have built enough systems and installed many hard drives to see this is not normal and I think this has to do with why my system is going through an abnormally slow boot proccess (my emachine celeron 1.8 with half the memory is booting about twice as fast...emachine faster with more startup programs running....this is just wrong...lol)
If anyone has an explanation or solution for this...please reply...thank you.

Get your motherboard manual and look at the IDE ports you put in, they belong to the external embedded IDE RAID VIA6410 controller.
First thing first, you need to enable VIA6410 as IDE (not RAID) in your BIOS. It may NOT support Optical drives. If it can, then it's good. But if really cannot, then you have to share your optical drives with one cable on the "IDE3" which your HDD is currently resided. And, put your HDD at either of the 2 IDEs of VIA6410.
Now... the reason why your HDD is in IDE3 because SATA 1,2,3,4 are taking the IDE1 and IDE2.

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Current ide mode in BIOS is set to AHCI+IDE mode, DMA modes are fine (UDMA4 for dvd, UDMA5 for hard drive), boot sequence (1st=HD, 2nd=DVD, 3rd=Floppy drive)
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I would like to know if anybody with this same situation was able to successfully update the optical drive's firmware or is there some way to place the optical drive on the secondary ide channel and the hard drive on primary for me to follow and replicate the process.
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