EP45-UD3P

[Sliceup]

Ok so after having this board for quite a while i had windows vista ult x64 installed which was install from a ide dvd rom drive. my main HD crashed and i am trying to install windows and it wont boot from CD. the rev of my board is 1.0 i was running the f7 bios but i went back to f6 just in case it was the bios being flaky. now i have tried two different bioses, two different ide cables and two different dvd rom drives that work in two other machines. and it doesnt show up in bios or let me boot from a cd or dvd where as the same cd on two other rigs worked. any suggestions? i am freaking out cause if i cant intall a os on my main rig it is useless until i can. i am wondering why before my ide dvd rom drive showed up and now its not showing any ide dvd rom drive i pop in. and yes i set boot device priority.

CPU
Q9650 @ 4.05ghz 24/7 (450 x 9)

Motherboard
Gigabyte EP45-UD3P

Memory
Corsair Dominator 1080MHZ @ 5-5-5-15 2.2v

Graphics Card
EVGA GTX260 core 216

Hard Drive
300GB-VR,2 x 320gb(raid 0), 500gb sata, 750gb sata

Sound Card
X-FI TItanium

Power Supply
Antec Quattro 1000watt

Case
Antec 1200

 

[gummi467]

well in terms of getting the OS back up and running quickly I would suggest grabbing a SATA optical drive for the install. afterwords you can find out what is being flaky. Only thing I can think of otherwise is to make sure the optical drive is getting power, and possibly the IDE input on the board screwing up. I believe the southbridge controls the ide inputs so it could be going haywire. have you reset the CMOS? Final thought is to make sure the drives can read CD's. not to be stupid but I know there are some drives out there that can only read/write DVD and won't handle CD's.

 

[Sliceup]

yes i did that too. and i cant get my hands on a sata dvd rom drive and yes my dvd drive burns cd's and so forth its a sony other is lg and thrid one i have is another sony. i am so confused.

 

[Sliceup]

ok so its not even detecting any ide devices at all weird

 

[conlan]

As gummi467 asked above, have you reset CMOS?

 

[Sliceup]

yes i reset Cmos.... didnt help!

edit: so i just took apart the whole rig cleaned the everything put everything back together and it works very odd i fixed it but i dont know wth caused it.

 

[gummi467]

wow.... glad it worked. don't you love it when things miraculously fix themselves?