IBM Intelli Station M Pro, IDE Hard disk not detected

[jvramana]

Dear All,

We have one IBM Server (IBM Intelli Station M Pro) with Windows XP. It has some SCSI disks. I added one IDE Hard Disk to Channel 0 as a Master and I kept even hard disk jumper in right place. But system is not coming up and it is saying Press F1 to enter setup. When I pressed, it is saying "Entering Setup", at Boot Screen. Nothing is going on. If I remove that new hard disk, System is working fine.

This system has 2 IDE channels, CD-ROM is connected to Channel 1.

Jupmer settings & Cables are fine.

Anybody can help me to fix this problem ...........?


Ramana

[GomJabbar]

I am not sure I understand your problem correctly, but I ran into an issue like this before. If I remember right, when you put in an IDE disk into a system with SCSI disks, the IDE always becomes the boot drive (C: drive). If you do not have an operating system installed on the IDE disk, you cannot boot up. At least this was my experience. I did play around with this for awhile, but I never could get it to boot off of the SCSI disk when the IDE disk was hooked up. I think this is a BIOS issue and perhaps with a different BIOS it could be made to work.

[jvramana]

Hi,

Thank you very much for sharing your past experience.

If I upgrade BIOS of my system, Does it help? Because this system current BIOS is 1.13. I found latest BIOS (1.16) at IBM site.

Regards,

Ramana

[bill bolton]

If I upgrade BIOS of my system, Does it help?

It depends what you want it help.

If you mean will it help your boot order issue... no.

Cheers,

Bill