Question : Problem: Installed a Sata card to control a DVD Burner - Can no longer boot from Primary IDE

Asus p4B266 Motherboard with WIndows XP machine with an IDE hard drive and an IDE CD Rom

I added a Sata card (Sil 3512A) for a new DVD Burner.

If I have the Sata cable plugged from the Sata Card to the Sata DVD/RW then my bootup tells me "unable to find boot disk..press any key"

As soon as I disconnect the Sata cable, and reboot then it's fine..it boots off my Primary IDE drive just like I want it to ... goes into XP Pro..detected my Sata card..I loaded it's drivers..etc..

I have the boot priority set to boot from the Primary IDE drive first....

Answer : Problem: Installed a Sata card to control a DVD Burner - Can no longer boot from Primary IDE

You will need to change boot order in bios first, set to boot from IDE drive, not from Sata PCI card.