Remove all Jumpers from the Samsung drive.

AncapDude wrote on 2025-08-26, 18:03:

Remove all Jumpers from the Samsung drive.

Okay, I'll give that a shot. Thanks.

If that doesn't help and they work on secondary, try to Move the cable as far away as possible from any components due to interferences or try another cable. If it still fails, your primary Port May be broken on connection or chipset Level

AncapDude wrote on 2025-08-26, 18:03:

Remove all Jumpers from the Samsung drive.

No, sadly the same thing happens.

AncapDude wrote on 2025-08-26, 18:10:

If that doesn't help and they work on secondary, try to Move the cable as far away as possible from any components due to interferences or try another cable. If it still fails, your primary Port May be broken on connection or chipset Level

Ohh I hope the port isn't broken. That certainly wasn't mentioned when I bought it. I'll try another cable and see.

DustyShinigami wrote on 2025-08-26, 18:12:

No, sadly the same thing happens.

OK. Should still be correct as your setting Was slave with 32gb Limit. It's a Bad Layout of the Label. Try the other things I mentioned if that helps.

AncapDude wrote on 2025-08-26, 18:15:

DustyShinigami wrote on 2025-08-26, 18:12:

No, sadly the same thing happens.

OK. Should still be correct as your setting Was slave with 32gb Limit. It's a Bad Layout of the Label. Try the other things I mentioned if that helps.

Okay, I believe I've discovered the cause of the issue. The IDE ribbon I've been trying to use, which is a big one with three female headers on, has a very small tear underneath the middle connector. That would certainly explain it. So I'm going to order 2-3 of those and some dual male ribbons so I can daisy-chain additional female connectors together if it turns out any are faulty.

Thanks for trying to help. 😀

With pleasure. Good luck and let us know if another cable did the trick.

DustyShinigami wrote on 2025-08-26, 19:15:

I'm going to order 2-3 of those and some dual male ribbons

Try to get 80 wire cables, for future proofing 😀

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA#80 … nductor_variant

mtest001 wrote on 2025-08-26, 20:06:

DustyShinigami wrote on 2025-08-26, 19:15:

I'm going to order 2-3 of those and some dual male ribbons

Try to get 80 wire cables, for future proofing 😀

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA#80 … nductor_variant

Thanks for the tip. Didn’t realise that was a thing. I’ll get three of each. 😀

I seem to be having the same problem with the CD-ROM drive as well. I’m not sure if it’s because it was specifically designed for the old machine I took it out of, though I can’t imagine that being an issue, but connecting it up doesn’t do anything at all. It requires a 39 pin IDE, and I’ve tried connecting to a 39 pin bank, as well as using an adapter to plug it into IDE 2. On boot, it makes a noise suggesting it’s working, but it doesn’t recognise it on boot, in the BIOS, or in Windows. 😕 And I’ve tried taking the jumper out and putting it into Master and disconnecting everything else.

BIOS setting is Auto? Because I had the same issue today and forgot I Set Primary slave manually to None in BIOS 😅

AncapDude wrote on 2025-08-27, 16:38:

BIOS setting is Auto? Because I had the same issue today and forgot I Set Primary slave manually to None in BIOS 😅

Yeah, I believe they’re all Auto. Well, on the main page they’re None, but selecting each one says Auto. And getting them to automatically detect them comes up with nothing.

Ah. Looks like I’ve bricked Windows by installing the wrong drivers for something. Now it won’t boot and gives me a BSOD. Bit tricky to reformat without a CD drive as well. 😫 And I couldn’t remove it in Safe Mode either.

Yeah, not sure what I'm going to do now. The only thing I can think of is to dig out a spare CD drive, but I think that will be too modern. In fact, I'm sure it's too modern. It'll require a SATA cable. I've absolutely no idea why this CD-RW isn't being recognised, but without one, I have a PC I can't do very much with until it's reformatted.

I still don't know how to use it yet, but unless the flash floppy drive can read image files from a CD...?

No luck with IDE hmm. Another optical drive just for cross-testing would be helpful. They are widely available for near nothing. USB boot with CD access is possible, depends on what you're booting from the stick and if your BIOS supports it. As you face several issues with IDE i would recommend to completely start over. Remove everything and start from zero step by step with testing each step.

AncapDude wrote on 2025-08-27, 18:51:

No luck with IDE hmm. Another optical drive just for cross-testing would be helpful. They are widely available for near nothing. USB boot with CD access is possible, depends on what you're booting from the stick and if your BIOS supports it. As you face several issues with IDE i would recommend to completely start over. Remove everything and start from zero step by step with testing each step.

I’ve still yet to buy some new IDE cables. I’m waiting to pay off my balance before buying anything else. 😄 So I’ve been experimenting with what I have. I have some spare but smaller 40 pin and 39 pin connectors, but nothing appears to be working. I also stripped everything back to the beginning so only one thing is connected. Today, it’s just been the CD drive. I just don’t know if this CD drive has some quirk it doesn’t like from the previous setup.

I have a question: can you normally have more than two IDE controllers in the BIOS? There's options there for IDE 1 and 2, but my motherboard has four. Two black, which are 40 pins and two white, which are 39. I just find it odd how the CD drive is never listed in IDE Primary Master/Slave or IDE Secondary Master/Slave. Or does it not make any difference? Does connecting something into IDE 3 or 4 still show in Primary and/or Secondary?

Ahhh. Looks like the CD drive may have been detected the whole time, but it shows up in a different menu. A different BIOS…? I noticed since installing this motherboard that it comes up with a Highpoint Technologies screen. I noticed it list the CD-ROM there. 😃 Can’t say I noticed that before. It could be thanks to removing my sound card beforehand…? Apparently some sound cards have IDE controllers…? And it may have caused a conflict…? So I removed it just in case.