rvgreen{at}telusplanet.net wrote:
> 
>>But then things got weird.  When drives have been changed the MB
>>goes  thru a lengthy process of reevaluation.  During one of the
>>iterations it  swapped the IDE ports on the MB; they are OK
>>now.
> 
> Ray, I have two mobos here that do thet,a Soyo and amn Epox. There
> is a setting in the bios,which when first started,is enabled. When
> you boot after installing components,it reads the hardware,then
> tucks it away somewgere. If yoyu changehardware withouut going in
> to the bios and resetting this to enabled again,they barf because
> of the hardware change. AMOF,the Epox will not even start for
> about an hour after changing some component.I shut it down
> once,nove the moniter from the installed card to the built-in
> video,and it didnt start untill about two hours later. HTH

This is an ECS K7VTA3.  I just put it together.  For a couple years I 
have had plugin HDD.  They tend to get moved rather often.

What BIOS setting?

Ray


 
Yahoo! Groups Links

 To visit your group on the web, go to:
     http://groups.yahoo.com/group/os2hardware/

 To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
     os2hardware-unsubscribe{at}yahoogroups.com

 Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
     http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
 


---