I installed a HP 9110i on my system. When I turn the computer on it hangs during boot up as the BIOS is determining what's on the system. I went into BIOS (American Megatrends 2000) and do an automated search of drives etc. it does not find any of them. I turn the computer off, pull the data cable on the HP 9110i and reboot and it loads as it should.
I've got the boot hard drive and existing CD-ROM on IDE1 and the HP 9110i is alone in IDE2. I've checked cabling and the power connections and they are set right and the cable is set right at the burner and the motherboard (pin 1 along the red line). I.ve set the jumper to "Master". I know I have power to all power cables, operational data cables and that both IDE slots on the motherboard work.
The system I'm installing it in has a PC266-M810 motherboard, Athlon 1700 chip, 512 meg memory, Windows XP and a second scsi hard drive with the usual peripherals.
I bought the hp 9110i unit on EBAY so I don't have the software but at this stage that shoudn't make any diiference.
Has anyone have any ideas on what the problem could be?
Thanks
Neil

Moving to CDRW.

Well of course it could be a faulty drive, or maybe a faulty IDE cable as well.
I'd try this once, unhook the CDROM, set the CDRW to slave and install it on IDE 1 with the HD, see if it boots. THat would eliminate a few posssiblitlies.
Also make sure the IDE 2 Channel is enabled in Device Manager or BIOS