Current problem: If I restart or shut off my computer, during bootup it hangs on the screen with the motherboard logo. If I press Del for BIOS, it says it's loading it but never does. If I press TAB to show the boot process, it detects all my drives (slowly), then hangs and never loads. If I quickly press TAB and then F8 (for "boot options"), I get prompted to select a "first boot device". I select anything from there and Windows loads. Everything, including the new SATA DVD drive, works fine once I'm in Windows. If I restart or shutdown, I get the same problem again on bootup.
How I got here: IDE DVD drive wouldn't read discs. So I bought a Lite-On SATA DVD drive to replace it. Unplugged the power, IDE and sound card cables from the IDE, put in the SATA and plugged in power and used the SATA cable that came with it to plug it into my motherboard. The DVD drive was the slave on a cable with a hard drive that was set to master. I didn't do anything with the HDD jumper or anything, I just unplugged the IDE cable from the DVD drive and that's it.
So right now it's all working, but it would be nice (and make me feel better) if I knew I could restart without this happening.
