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Promise Technology ULTRA 100 ATA
I have an Asus A7V motherboard. When I plug any component (cd drive or hard
drive into the ULTRA ATA 100 controllers the system will show the startup logo and then freeze). I have the most current BIOS and drivers for these components; as soon as I unplug the cd drive or plug the HD into the standard IDE controller everything works fine. |
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Promise Technology ULTRA 100 ATA
"RonH" wrote in message
... I have an Asus A7V motherboard. When I plug any component (cd drive or hard drive into the ULTRA ATA 100 controllers the system will show the startup logo and then freeze). I have the most current BIOS and drivers for these components; as soon as I unplug the cd drive or plug the HD into the standard IDE controller everything works fine. Did you configure your BIOS boot drive sequence to list the SCSI device (after the floppy and CD-ROM drive but before any hard drive attached to the IDE ports on the mobo)? Because the IDE controller card has its own BIOS, it is treated like a BIOS controller so the system BIOS has to pass control to the daughtercard's BIOS. Presumably you have already installed the Promise drivers before you moved the drive from the IDE mobo port to the Promise card. If the CD-ROM and hard drive are both on the same port on the same cable to the Promise card and removing the CD-ROM drive lets you boot from the hard drive attached to that card then you have a configuration conflict between those 2 drives. Maybe you have both configured as the master drive, or both as the slave drive, or are trying to use cable select (which I never use since it has proven flaky and depends on timing of the latch circuits). -- __________________________________________________ __________ Post your replies to the newsgroup. Share with others. E-mail reply: Remove "NIXTHIS" and add "#VS811" to Subject. __________________________________________________ __________ |
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Promise Technology ULTRA 100 ATA
I will double check the configuration, however, when I had Windows ME
installed on the same system I never had a problem. "Vanguard" wrote: "RonH" wrote in message ... I have an Asus A7V motherboard. When I plug any component (cd drive or hard drive into the ULTRA ATA 100 controllers the system will show the startup logo and then freeze). I have the most current BIOS and drivers for these components; as soon as I unplug the cd drive or plug the HD into the standard IDE controller everything works fine. Did you configure your BIOS boot drive sequence to list the SCSI device (after the floppy and CD-ROM drive but before any hard drive attached to the IDE ports on the mobo)? Because the IDE controller card has its own BIOS, it is treated like a BIOS controller so the system BIOS has to pass control to the daughtercard's BIOS. Presumably you have already installed the Promise drivers before you moved the drive from the IDE mobo port to the Promise card. If the CD-ROM and hard drive are both on the same port on the same cable to the Promise card and removing the CD-ROM drive lets you boot from the hard drive attached to that card then you have a configuration conflict between those 2 drives. Maybe you have both configured as the master drive, or both as the slave drive, or are trying to use cable select (which I never use since it has proven flaky and depends on timing of the latch circuits). -- __________________________________________________ __________ Post your replies to the newsgroup. Share with others. E-mail reply: Remove "NIXTHIS" and add "#VS811" to Subject. __________________________________________________ __________ |
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Promise Technology ULTRA 100 ATA
And your operating system is?? There is a problem with Windows 2000 and
special steps must be taken. -- Regards, Richard Urban aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-) If you knew as much as you think you know, You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew! "RonH" wrote in message ... I have an Asus A7V motherboard. When I plug any component (cd drive or hard drive into the ULTRA ATA 100 controllers the system will show the startup logo and then freeze). I have the most current BIOS and drivers for these components; as soon as I unplug the cd drive or plug the HD into the standard IDE controller everything works fine. |
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Promise Technology ULTRA 100 ATA
I would suspect as Vanguard stated, you have the jumpers configured on the
IDE devices in a way they conflict with each other - acceptable methods: 1) One device on the said channel (0 or 1) configured as "MASTER". 2) One device on the said channel (0 or 1) configured as "SLAVE". 3) Both devices on the said channel (0 or 1) configured as "CSEL" aka cable select. Also note, on IDE controllers, the channel will only operate as fast as the slowest device - so if you have a HD configured using UDMA4 and a CD drive configured using UDMA2, then both devices will only operate at UDMA2 speeds. This is why it is always recommended to put CD or DVD drives on a separate channel from your hard drives. -- Star Fleet Admiral Q @ your service! "Google is your Friend!" www.google.com *********************************************** "RonH" wrote in message ... I will double check the configuration, however, when I had Windows ME installed on the same system I never had a problem. "Vanguard" wrote: "RonH" wrote in message ... I have an Asus A7V motherboard. When I plug any component (cd drive or hard drive into the ULTRA ATA 100 controllers the system will show the startup logo and then freeze). I have the most current BIOS and drivers for these components; as soon as I unplug the cd drive or plug the HD into the standard IDE controller everything works fine. Did you configure your BIOS boot drive sequence to list the SCSI device (after the floppy and CD-ROM drive but before any hard drive attached to the IDE ports on the mobo)? Because the IDE controller card has its own BIOS, it is treated like a BIOS controller so the system BIOS has to pass control to the daughtercard's BIOS. Presumably you have already installed the Promise drivers before you moved the drive from the IDE mobo port to the Promise card. If the CD-ROM and hard drive are both on the same port on the same cable to the Promise card and removing the CD-ROM drive lets you boot from the hard drive attached to that card then you have a configuration conflict between those 2 drives. Maybe you have both configured as the master drive, or both as the slave drive, or are trying to use cable select (which I never use since it has proven flaky and depends on timing of the latch circuits). -- __________________________________________________ __________ Post your replies to the newsgroup. Share with others. E-mail reply: Remove "NIXTHIS" and add "#VS811" to Subject. __________________________________________________ __________ |
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