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Recently, I purchased a new computer, or I should say part of one(AMD 64 3200+, MSI K8T-Neo, 1.0gb ddr400, 2x seagate 80gb serial ATA150, and a radeon pro 9800) to replace my old one(800mhz AMD Duron, BCM Mainboard, 64mb ddr Geforce2 Ti-Pro, 512mb PNY sd133, etc etc.) Well I decided rather than paying more for optical drives, I'd just use the ones I had in my previous computer. One was a 48x cdrw(dunno the brand, Pacific Western or something along those lines, perhaps?) and a 12x dvd-rom. I connected the power cord, and the master ATA cable of the MSI motherboard to the burner, and the slave to the dvd. I booted it up, and My cd tray of my cd-burner popped out, but the "light" didn't blink like it always did when it started up in my old computer.. I thought it was odd and then noticed neither of my serial drives were recognized.. so after tinkering for a while I discovered the people I purchased the computer from weren't bright enough to connect the power cable to the SATA drives... they were both recognized, but when I tried to install windows, it wanted the disc in my cd-burner, and the burner's tray would just open and close.. wouldn't read anything/light wouldn't blink.. so I disconnected the power to it and tried just setting my dvd-rom to master, with no slave ATA drive.. When I did this it no longer recognizes my master SATA drive, any ideas on either?

Hi
Deep breath, I think I've understood.
It sounds like bios settings, and the SATA drivers on the floppy.
If you have not already loaded your HDD with OS and DATA, I would start again,
First check the settings in BIOS, set to SAFE DEFAULTS, then go to Integrated Peripherals, page 3-20 of the manual, if you use the VIA drivers for SATA, thats SATA 1 & 2, then disable the P20378 S.ATA controller, make sure the PATA IDE and SATA IDE are enabled, if PATA is disabled the IDE devices won't be recognised. Exit and set Boot sequence to floppy, CD, HDD, enable other boot devices. exit and save.
Try your DVDs on cable select, the master on end of cable, I would try another 80 wire cable in case your is damaged.
Restart, when first XP blue screen press F6, later it asks to press S to load from floppy, follow prompts load both XP drivers, you will need to press S a 2nd time for the 2nd driver, at setup screen you should see all HDDs, partition, format , install
Cheers
jocko

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