First post, by athlon-power
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I recently got a new motherboard (an Intel SE440BX-2), and so far everything has worked, though I've not yet tested the CD drive functionality. For some reason, every time the motherboard tries to access the HDD, the system hangs and the HDD indicator lights up solidly. If this is when the HDD is the only thing that it can see to boot off of, the system will POST, but it will invariably be unable to actually access the hard drive, just sitting there with a blinking cursor. The HDD itself shows up in the BIOS setup, and worked perfectly fine with the previous motherboard.
If I boot it with a floppy in the A: drive, it will boot into the floppy right up until it has to access the hard drive, in which case, it will do the same thing as it does when the floppy drive is empty, stopping everything entirely to try and access the HDD, which never can be accessed. The HDD indicator also light up solidly while it does this, though I can hear zero activity from the drive when I put my ear next to it. I'm not sure why the mobo is deciding to throw a hissy fit with the drive, and I even went into the bios and gave the HDD delay setting 6 seconds to give the HDD time to initialize, which is the setting that I had on the other motherboard when it worked fine. Not sure what I'm doing wrong here- the drive is even jumpered in the back to limit it to 32GB so that older motherboards can handle it.
Where am I?
