[finalfantasyfan]

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I've just built this computer with a Sata HDD and a Sata DVD drive. However I get the following error:

press F1 to continue no IDE Master HDD detected

Could this have ocurred because I plugged the DVD drive into Sata 1 on the motherboard and the hard drive into Sata 2 (they were both color coded 'red' on the motherboard so I thought they were the primary ones and the black ones were slaves)?

The other problem is I have no PS/2 support during post (can't use PS/2 mouse or keyboard before I get to windows, forcing me to use USB).

I have installed Windows XP SP3 on the computer and there are no IDE drives in the computer.

[StumpedTechy]

Go into the BIOS and disable the onboard IDE controllers and their HDD detection. Your getting the errors because of the IDE not having anything installed on it and everything is SATA. I usually put the booting SATA drive on on the first SATA port on the MB (which is usually SATA0) and then put anything more after that.

[finalfantasyfan]

thanks for the reply StumpedTechy, I had a look this morning and I realised I hadn't set the IDE configuration to enhanced for the Sata connections and that seems to have fixed the error. The keyboard I'm not going to worry about, i'll just use USB since I don't plan on buying another PS2 keyboard in future (strange that it doesn't work in bios though).