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Roland Deschain
14-12-2005, 04:11 AM
Hi guys,

I'm having a huge problems with my DVD-Drive. I need to unplug it so that windows starts for some reason. My friend told me to disable the IDE-2 channel (secondary) from bios, to see if that does anything.

However, if I go into bios, all I can do is disable secondary master and slave, but I can't find the option that allows me to disable IDE-2 totally. I am overlooking something.

Please help it is getting really annoying. PS: I have an Asus motherboard.

PPS: Is the option in the advance tab, in the main tab, any help would be greatly apprechiated.

Thanks.
SAJ
14-12-2005, 04:33 AM
Your dvd will be either a master or a slave, so if disabling one doesnt work then it will be the other.
Alternatively, go into device manager and disable your drive from there.
Roland Deschain
14-12-2005, 04:49 AM
That's what I thought. But is there a option that disables the entire IDE cable, rather than me disabling the master and the slave seperatly (both my DVD drives are on the secondary)
Glirk Dient
14-12-2005, 05:44 AM
Open your case and un plug it? Why do you need to un plug it at all even?
giant384
14-12-2005, 01:05 PM
how do u know that the dvd drive is the cause of not starting up?????? ive never heard of unplugging the dvd drive for it to work is a friend telling you to do this and hes guessing? if windows isnt starting up it might be the hardrive not a cd/dvd drive
Drackard
14-12-2005, 01:53 PM
Never heard of a DVD-Drive preventing windows from starting :| ..... i agree with Giant though it may be the HDD more then anything.
3ssence
14-12-2005, 02:24 PM
Just open the case and unplug both of the drives, then they will no longer be present in the bios, et voila, you have no dvd drives.
TechnoHippyChic
14-12-2005, 04:27 PM
Check the jumpers on the DVD drives, if they're both set to master, for example, it can hang on boot for a long time...
DEATH eVADER
14-12-2005, 04:30 PM
Is windows not working?

I had a similar problem, the first place I would check are the jumpers on the HDD, what are they set to? What settings are there?
Roland Deschain
14-12-2005, 06:52 PM
Figured it out, there's this godamn pin on the back of both my DVD drives and it set them both to master for some reason.
3ssence
15-12-2005, 10:55 AM
those would be the jumpers that were mentioned above

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