clickclickw00t Posted January 17, 2006 Posted January 17, 2006 Hey guys. I have 2 drives in my system, one is a WD 200GB HD IDE. The other is a 250GB SATA Seagate. When I boot up into windows from the 200GB, it works fine. When I try booting up into windows with the 250GB, it gives me this thing saying "Nvidia DHCP searching" or some crap like that an it won't boot into that drive. WTF? any suggestions? I've tried like everything. The only time I can get it to boot into that drive is if I have both drives connected and I select the second drive for my boot drive when it gives me this menu: Windows XP Pro Windows XP Pro the first one is my 200GB. the second is my 250GB. When I press the second one it boots. however if I just have the 250GB one connected it doesnt work. I'm so confused. Any help would be appreciated. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chronicfathead Posted January 17, 2006 Posted January 17, 2006 DHCP is to do with network configuration, nothing to do with HDD's. I think that message will be a red herring, as they say. I think you prolly have a HDD config problem though. Is the IDE drive the only drive on the cable? Which socket is the SATA drive plugged into, 1,2,3 or 4? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
clickclickw00t Posted January 17, 2006 Posted January 17, 2006 It is the one right under the CPU. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chronicfathead Posted January 17, 2006 Posted January 17, 2006 Good, because they are stable for overclocking. Which bios are you using? Does anyone else know about the SATA drive problems. I've never had any problems myself, but I remember reading about people having problems with them. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
THunDA Posted January 17, 2006 Posted January 17, 2006 the first one is my 200GB. the second is my 250GB. When I press the second one it boots. however if I just have the 250GB one connected it doesnt work. I'm so confused. Any help would be appreciated. Thats prolly because when you installed windows you had both drives hooked up and some of the boot files (mbr) are on the 200gb drive.. When installing windows with multiple drives its best to only have the drive hooked up that you are installing to.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
clickclickw00t Posted February 12, 2006 Posted February 12, 2006 Thats prolly because when you installed windows you had both drives hooked up and some of the boot files (mbr) are on the 200gb drive.. When installing windows with multiple drives its best to only have the drive hooked up that you are installing to.. I tried reinstalling windows. I even tried booting the drive up by itself without ANYTHING installed on it, like compeltely empty but formatted, and it still gives me the DHCP issue. I'm runing 824 bios btw. I really don't know whats goign on. I've tried all the SATA ports. I found one thing... when I go into HDTUNE, and I check the info for the drive, it says its not bootable??? Is there someway I should reformat it so it is bootable... I NEED HELP!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
clickclickw00t Posted February 12, 2006 Posted February 12, 2006 wow.. i just fixed it... here's what you gotta do.. 1) go into administrative tools 2) go to hard drive management 3) find the drive... then right click it 4) select "show as active" Should boot now... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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