HARD DRIVES

What is up with my computer?

I have a desktop that uses IDE/ultra ATA, it has on hard drive in it currently. I also have a netbook that has a 1.8 ZIF SSD hard drive. I bought an IDE/ZIF adapter. The 1.8 zif drive has windows problems and needs to be formatted. I set it up in my desktop using the adapter as a slave. This is the strange problem
I turn the computer on, the activity light stays lit, the fans run at full speed, but it doesn’t boot into BIOS or anything, nothing on the monitor either. As soon as I unplug the ZIF SSD, it boots right up into windows.

IDE allows you to put 2 drives on the same cable. (I’m assuming you have both drives on the same cable.)

There are 2 ways commonly used to select which drive is accessed:
Master/Slave is the most common method. The boot drive is the master and the added drive is the slave. There are jumpers on the drives (and usually a chart) to make the selection. This system uses a 40-pin cable with all the conductors and all the pins in the connectors. All sockets are identical.

Chip Select (CS) is the other system. Here you jumper the drive for CS, and a special 40-pin cable determines which drive is drive 0 an drive 1.

Your IDE/Serial adapter has to be jumpered and capable of being configured to match your existing cable/drive. This is probably the problem

A possible solution is to connect the IDE/Serial adapter to the other IDE cable, instead of your optical drive. This will allow you to boot up and give you a better chance of success.

Also, the most modern BIOS settings will automatically configure for new hardware. If it doesn’t, you may have to enter the setup mode when you boot up, and change the setting for your new drive.

IDE-Adapter PATA 1,8-Zoll-Festplatte ZIF LIF-Sockel / 2,5-Zoll-Controller 44-polig