Hello, Wayne.  I recently overheard you talking with Tom Walker about -

  -=> WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to TOM WALKER <=-

 ->  TW> IF you find the place to disable the On Board IDE controller it is
 ->  TW> just that simple.

 -> It's right there in the CMOS.

Hmm.  Right _where_ in CMOS, Wayne?  (see below)

 TW>  I have an Award BIOS and it is under "Intergerated Peripherals"
 TW> Yuo will have to look arround as it could be in a different place orr
 TW> an earlier or Later BIOS  or in an AMD BIOS

 WC> Mine's under IDE primary 0
 WC> and IDE primary 1.
 WC> Highlight these and hit enter and you've the options of
 WC> Auto, removable, ATAPI, USER and none.
 WC> To add an I/O Ultra-133 card I'll just set both to none, save and
     exit.

In my experience here, entering "NONE" on the SETUP first screen does
not disable the IDE channel. Here,  I have "NONE" entered In SETUP for
both drives on the secondary IDE channel, and that clearly does not
disable the channel, since the CD/ROM drive I have as secondary channel
'master' drive works just right.

Sorry, I can't tell you if there is a better SETUP screen where you
should look in order to disable one or both of your mainboard's onboard
IDE channels. Back when we were talking about compatible memory sticks,
I went to the HP website, and I finally gave up on finding a copy of
your mainboard's manual, because I found HP website to be a cumbersome
PITA.

Good luck. - - -  JimH.

... Jim, why does everything these days have to be so danged complicated?-Bubba
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