Re: BIOS Modes
VanguardLH <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.hardware |
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| Organization | Usenet Elder |
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tb <[email protected]> wrote: > I have an old Intel DP55WG motherboard with Windows 10 Home (64-bit) > installed. > > The board has an LG DVD optical drive and a WD hard drive (500 GB) > installed. Both are SATA and connected to separate SATA controllers on > the motherboard via their cables. > > If I go into the BIOS and change the SATA chipset setting to IDE, I am > able to boot up with the hard drive, but not with the DVD drive. This > even though the HD is SATA. > > If I change the chipset to AHCI, I can boot up with the DVD drive but > not with the hard drive. The model of the hard disk? "WD 500" says nothing about the actual model of the hard disk. If it has jumpers, which pins are shorted? The model of the optical drive? LG made a lot of DVD drive models. It also might have pins to jumper them.