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Originally posted by darant
Right, now for a simple question which will no doubt have a simple answer.
on a drive (CD, HDD) there are settings - Slave, Master. Do these corispond at all to the primary or slave on the mother board?
or what way should I have them....
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Bit late in on this..sorry.
There is no 'primary master or slave on the motherboard' ! Just two (or more) IDE channels.
Both can carry 'master'
and 'slave'. Your HDD should be set as master on Primary IDE1 with one end (the blue connector) of its 40 pin connector plugged into the mobo's Primary IDE1 and the other end (that is the last connector point) plugged into the back of the HDD (make sure the jumper on the back of the HDD is set to master).
The CD should be plugged into Primary IDE2 similarly (again jumpered as master).
I personally think the boot sequence in the BIOS should be set to:
1st...floppy
2nd...IDE1 (HDD)
3rd...IDE2 (CD-ROM/RW)
That way on your first re-boot after the system has copied the OS files off the setup CD it will try to boot from your HDD where enough files should be present to afford a start up.