Author image Clayton Molle wrote: Hello Looking at the specs for this unit, I think I have a solution for you. The hard drive is SATA but the optical drive is ATA (the older ribbon cable connection)
Clayton molle had me look at my cd/dvd unit in the back to see what the jumper was set on, He thought it might be on CS..But It was already set to master..So now the Question is !... If the hard drive is the master on the board, Then how can the cd/dvd be a master also. Wouldn't it conflict with one another,???..I disconnected the hard drive cables and power, then rebooted to see if it recognized the cd/dvd. The lights flashed looking for it, But indeed up booting to the windows screen for the password again. I looked on the intel board for a password pin to clear it, But don't have one. It does have a pin for bios norm, on that now, But the other pin says bios config. The jumper is on Bios norm. Should I put the jumper on bios config. ?? I WONDER HUMMM, THEN SOMETIMES I DON'T....
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Older systems have 2 ata channels, each channel has a master and a slave so yes there can be two masters. you should set your boot hard disk to the primary (channel 0) master and the cdroms to master and slave on the secondary (channel 1) channel. the bios config jumper will allow you to config the bios, norm is for normal ops and there should indeed be two pins that you short together to clear the bios passwd