[jas98235]

hi every1,

i just finishd my firsd build! but im having a problem installing vista!

i currently have 1x ide dvd burner and 3x ide hard drives, but my mobo (xfx 680i lt) only has one ide channel, i have a ide/sata controller card which works fine! but i cant boot/install on any of the hard drives on it? i went into my bios and set it to beable to boot from it (or at least i think i did) i put in the vista dvd and i hoocked in a 2nd dvd drive and put in a cd with the controller cards drivers on it, when i get into the install part where it says load drivers it finds the drivers on the disc and ten finds the hard drives on the card. but when i click on the hard drive i want to install to it says it cant boot off the drive and says to makesure my bios enables me to? but i already did that! i dubble checkd my bios and it seems fine (setting for boot from other device or something like that is set to enable) but it still dosnt work? does anyone kno how to get this working? thanks in advance

[zerocool]

Try hooking up the harddrive you want to install vista onto and your dvd drive to the motherboards ide controller and installing vista, then connect your additional hardware you and let vista find them.

See if that will work

[Cew27]

thats not possible he needs to have 2 ide drives hooked up one to read vista disk another to write to hdd

[redden137]

sorry m8 your post sees a bit long winded, basically set your first boot device to cd/dvd, second to hard drive and third to other,
if i read you right though your saying your dvd drive and hard drive are both ide ribbon leads and you only have one ide connector on m/b, im not sure you will be able to use this to install as both optical and hard drive should be set to master and i dont think you can ave two masters on one cable but i may be proved wrong

[philthomas]

If you install an 80 conductor IDE Cable (not a 40), with 2 connectors, you will be able to connect one HDD and 1 x DVD Drive to the on board IDE Controller.
The jumpers must be set correctly .... i.e. Master for the HDD and Slave for the DVD Drive.

The bios setup should be as redden137 sstated. Then add your additional PCI Controller Card after Vista is loaded, as zerocool suggested.

[philthomas]

Just another thought ..... if this is an UPDATE version of Vista, you wont be able to install it to a blank drive, you need to have XP installed and do the upgrade from there.