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  1. Member
    Join Date: Jan 2007
    Location: Australia
    hey guys ive got a weird problem here
    i just installed a new pci ide card and my problem is when i connect 2 harddrives to it ,it will not load windows it just sits on the wndows xp boot screen but will not load but it will load if i disconnect one of the harddrives
    i bought a new psu yesterday 550watts
    i have the drivers installed and the card works fine with one harddrive connected but 2 installed and no go
    anyone got any ideas to solve this problem
    thanks for taking the time to read

    john
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  2. Member edDV's Avatar
    Join Date: Mar 2004
    Location: Northern California, USA
    Did you install the drivers for the card? Promise cards replace the OS disk drivers with their own. These load before Windows boots.
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  3. Member
    Join Date: Jan 2007
    Location: Australia
    drivers are installed for the raid controller from the disc provided it says that it might not work properly until i reboot
    i then reboot and it just sitts on the windows xp boot screen with the little blue thing that scrolls across stopping and starting
    when i disconnect 1 of the harddrives ide cables doesnt matter which one it will start fine
    so it has to be something to do with the card not liking to harddrives connected of a driver issue
    please help someone
    thanks

    john
    it will only let me load with 1 harddrive installed andthe harddrive is reconised in windows
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  4. Member
    Join Date: Dec 2005
    Location: none
    Is one drive set as master and the other drive as slave? Or are both set at "cable select"?
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  5. Member
    Join Date: Jan 2007
    Location: Australia
    Originally Posted by jagabo
    Is one drive set as master and the other drive as slave? Or are both set at "cable select"?
    man i cant beleive i over looked the most obvious settings
    all up and running now thanks alot

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