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Installed a refurb from Newegg, using a WD 20GB HD, GEF2GTS, onboard sound.
Power on, message: Detecting IDE Drives
Stays on for quite a while (15-20 sec),
Then goes to: Loading DMI Data pool (or whatever that really says...hangs for another 20 secs)
Then instead of the Win98 splash screen, it tries to boot from the CDROM.
I switched channels and put the HD on IDE1 instead of IDE0, and I got it to work. But I am concerned that it won't boot from IDE0.
(I had to clear the CMOS to get it to work).
Plus when I go into BIOS, and try to detect the HD, it does not succesfully detect it.
Thanks,
Loop

No guarantees:

My experience with WD is that they're sensitive to jumper settings; a single drive jumpered Master has shown me glitchy detection in the past. When paired with a Slave, it was cool, but alone they prefer the Single jumper setting.

I've seen a large number (>20) manifest this problem, but I've no experience with the current generation. YMMV.

CMOSs clear differently; did your clearing operation hose the date back to default? That's my hint that things are completely wiped. No offense meant by mentioning that.

Yep WD drives are VERY picky about jumper settings, especially on onboard controllers. I thought mine was broken and got WD to ship me a RMA drive b/c of it. However on external connectors I never really had a problem (HPT366 and HPT370 chipsets in specific).

Hmm...OK, I'll give that a try!
Loop

That was it! I feel like a total goober. I changed it to a slave drive to run filecopy from my old
system, and then when I put it back to master, used the master w/ slave position.
Thank for the tip! I was almost ready to RMA the board.