So, it's becoming quite a tradition that every time I get a new piece of hardware, it doesn't work 🤣

I've bought a used 80GB IDE HDD from Seagate 7200RPM, 2MB cache. It's set as Primary Master.

I've patched my motherboard with an LBA patch. The name of the motherboard is LuckyStar 5ITX1 rev 2.0, the chipset is Intel 430TX.I think the patch should work, because now when I go to "Standard CMOS Setup", I have an option to set the hard drive mode to LBA.

My only other drive is a Sony CD-RW drive, set as Secondary Master.

As I try to boot, my BIOS hangs at detecting the Primary Master (i.e., the new Seagate drive). Meaning, it won't advance, it won't skip, but I can enter the setup menu without rebooting.

I've checked the jumpers, they're the same as they were on my previous hard drive (just to be clear, I switched the hard drives, I don't have them both installed).

Then I googled, and someone suggests manually setting the drive so that BIOS thinks it's a 528M drive. I've tried that, and now the BIOS detects the secondary master (as the primary master doesn't need to be detected) and hangs. Again, to be clear, at this point my boot sequence starts with a CD-ROM, so I'm definitely not waiting for a missing OS.

What should I do? Thanks.