New Motherboards Disallowing IDE Booting?

wattsup asks: "It seems that bootable IDE ports are disappearing on newer motherboards. I recently purchased an MSI G965M-FI motherboard for a system upgrade. Overall the board is pretty good with lots of features, but it had one unexpected 'feature' that I didn't know about when I bought it. The PATA100 IDE port won't allow you to install an operating system from an attached CD-ROM. Does anybody know if this is an issue that can be fixed by upgrading the BIOS, or is this hard-wired into the IDE controller?" "While its on their website, MSI doesn't tell you this on the retail packaging, until you break the seal on the static wrap and look at the motherboard. There, with a tiny label placed over the IDE connector, they inform you 'This IDE does not support OS installation in hard drive'.

This made my out-of-box experience rather maddening, as I had to get a USB based CD-ROM to install a fresh copy of XP. This seems like a pretty lame way to save money, disabling functionality on an IDE port that's included. Some research shows me that other manufacturers are doing the same thing. Why?"

Comments

Re:Ah, the JMicron IDE controller.

[notanatheist]

n00bs, the whole lot of you. Yes, the 965 doesn't play nice without a brand new kernel BUT>>>

Use a SATA Optical Drive and all is well. Don't even bitch about the cost, they are less than $10 more than IDE these days. Also, I have NEVER had an issue installing XP SP2 (Home or Pro) on any Intel D965 series boards (DP and DQ). NEVER! I have literally gone through a couple hundred DQ965GF motherboards. The SATA RAID is Intel so no complaining about that unless you're whining about it "not being hardware RAID". What do you expect for a board under $140? Get a life. Even a 2 port 3Ware controller is $100.

/rant
P.S. Stop letting n00bs post "AskSlashdot" until a thorough beating with a clue bat has been done.