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    hdd-0 boots to ide2

    I just installed an ABIT IT7-MAX2 V2 BOARD. The cmos correctly recognizes my drives in the order they are connected.

    However, the boot sequence does not see them in that same order. Hdd-0 boots to the secondary master ide port and hdd-2 boots to the primary master ide port.

    I dualboot w98 and w2k on this machine. This caused the drive letters on physical drives 'd' and 'e' to change in w98 but not w2k.
    I flashed the bios with the newest file and an older one. I reset the board etc.. None of this helped.

    I have never seen this before. Has anyone else?

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    Are you able to boot to either HD?
    Does the Win 98 HD have a C partition?

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    I've seen cases where that kind of confusion in the information the cmos stores happens. Disable the secondary ide controller (and/or the drives on it). Reboot, tell it to autodetect what's on the primary controller, save and exit. Reboot again, re-enable the secondary controller (and/or devices), set it to autoedetect them, save and exit. Reboot and see then what all you have.
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    DRMDJ,

    In the famous word's of Gilda Radner: NEVERMIND!

    What hapened was:

    I disconnected the old board and left everything else in place. I installed the new board and plugged two ide drives on the primary ide port, an ide drive on the secondary master and a cd/dvd drive on secondary slave. Pretty standard procdedure, right.

    Based on your suggestion, I started disconnecting drives and trying configurations. At some point in this procedure, I got a disk error and thought I had lost the boot record on the boot drive. This led to the discovery that the primary master was not my boot drive after all.

    You know how you put something somewhere so you will be sure to remember where it is? Then you forget where that place was.

    Well, I remembered that at some previous point, I put the cd/dvd writer as primary slave. The reason had to do with keeping the two data drives together and with cables reaching the drives in the tower case I was using.

    Anyway, as soon as I realized what an idiot I had been, I placed the drives appropriately and all was well.

    Sorry to waste everyone's time.

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    LOL. No time wasted. A problem solved is a problem solved. Glad it got resolved.
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