GA-970A-D3 & PCIEX/IDE card

[Mal7]

I've just put a GA970A-D3 motherboard in. I have 2 SATA drives in SATA3-0 and SATA3-1. I also have 2 dvd drives which ran off an IDE connector on my old board. As the new board does not have an IDE I've used a PCIEX IDE adapter card. I'm wanting to do a clean install of Win7 but can't get the BIOS to recognise the DVDs so I can designate one for boot priority. On boot up it say Detecting IDE Drives..
0 Hitachi IDE - master
0 None         - slave
1 Samsung   -  master
1  None         - slave
2 None
2 None
Hitachi and Sansung are my HDDs.
Windows device manager shows both the DVd drives plus also something called ELBY CLONEDRIVE SCSi Cdrom device.
In the BIOS there is no mention of any of the DVD drives.
The PCI card obviously works OK as I can use the DVDs. Where am I going wrong?

[autotech]

A couple of things you can do to solve this.  First when starting hit F-12 while the post screen is up that will take you to a boot menu.

Second get a usb drive and make it bootable and put your windows  installition on it then hit the F-12 Key and install windows from it once windows is loaded you can load the driver for your card.

[Mal7]

Not sure I explained myself clearly. I've already got Win7 as OS but wanted a clean install and can't find the DVD drives in the BIOS. I've read a few more forum posts and it seems the BIOS will not give an option to boot from a PCIEx card device. Is that correct? It's looking like I'll have to get a SATA DVD drive if I want to use it as a boot up option.

[kzaske]

Not sure I explained myself clearly. I've already got Win7 as OS but wanted a clean install and can't find the DVD drives in the BIOS. I've read a few more forum posts and it seems the BIOS will not give an option to boot from a PCIEx card device. Is that correct? It's looking like I'll have to get a SATA DVD drive if I want to use it as a boot up option.

To the best of my understanding that is correct.  You can however make a bootable USB drive that you can install from.  There are several sites that have step by step instructions on how to do it.  I believe that is what Autotech was trying to say is that you can also build a bootable USB drive with the drivers for your PCIE IDE card on it.  While Autotech's method would require a much smaller USB drive it may cause a few other issues, I don't really know as I have never had to install from a USB drive.

Here is a link that explains how to do it (without silverlight): http://www.maximumpc.com/article/howtos/how_install_windows_7_usb_key

Good luck

[Mal7]

O thanks for the info guys.