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Old 04-Jul-2009, 06:41
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Default Re: Blacke screen after fresh install

I finally got the source of the problem and is somehow hardware related. I currently have 3 disks, the new one (on which I want to place a fresh installation) is SATA and is connected to the first of 4 sata chanels. While both of the old two disks are ATA and are connected to a RAID controller. I don't need any of raid functionality, the only reason for buying a RAID controller was the lack of connections on my mobo. The new mobos have just one ATAPI channel on which I connected DVD player and DVD recorder. So what I found out is, that if any of the two old hard drives is connected on the raid controller that prevents booting from the new SATA disk. I know it sound strange but that's the way it is. I tried to physically disconnect both old disks and I can successfully boot the new installation. But If I connect any of two old disk back to RAID I can not boot the new installation. By the way the boot order in bios is set correctly. So I gues there is no other way but removing both old hard drives . Thanks for your help anyway.
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