anthony62490
August 18th, 2009, 07:00 PM
Not an Ubuntu-specific question, but you people are just so darn helpful...
Anyway. I decided to reinstall Ubuntu on a new HD after some pretty major hardware issues. Every went fine until I tried to attach my old HD as my Primary Slave.
The computer will start up just fine with only my new HD, but when I attach the old HD, it will only start up the first time. Any time after that and it will shut down within 5 seconds after pushing the power button. If I want to start it up again, I have to unhook the old HD and plug it back in again.
The guts have been set up like so:
IDE0:
Master = New HD
Slave = Old HD
IDE1:
Master = DVD Drive
Slvae = N/A
My CMOS is set to detect both Primary drives automatically on startup, so I don't think it's a problem with the CMOS.
Any ideas out there?
Anyway. I decided to reinstall Ubuntu on a new HD after some pretty major hardware issues. Every went fine until I tried to attach my old HD as my Primary Slave.
The computer will start up just fine with only my new HD, but when I attach the old HD, it will only start up the first time. Any time after that and it will shut down within 5 seconds after pushing the power button. If I want to start it up again, I have to unhook the old HD and plug it back in again.
The guts have been set up like so:
IDE0:
Master = New HD
Slave = Old HD
IDE1:
Master = DVD Drive
Slvae = N/A
My CMOS is set to detect both Primary drives automatically on startup, so I don't think it's a problem with the CMOS.
Any ideas out there?