Karen,

Your problems may be due to either the location of the boot files, or the
fact that you are / were on bios F8, or a combination of factors. I suggest
you try bios F10 and see if that resolves your issues. Before you do and If
not...

If you place a disk drive on a controller that preceeds the current boot
disc - you can't expect the system to boot. EG if your bios is set with the
following boot order: Floppy , CD, HDD - and you leave a floppy in the drive
it won't boot will it? (OK some bios are smart). Don't expect it to boot if
you put an IDE HDD in front of the boot IDE HDD.

Generally the boot disc should be on the lowest numbered device (in hardware
search order terms) of its type and the boot device type should be set
correctly. IE if you say to boot off IDE, then the boot device "should" be
on IDE Primary on IDE 0.

Now, you confuse things a little by entitling your post RAID.... but there
after only talk about IDE... If you are using RAID then please be careful
with the bios version you use.

Check your BOOT drive:

Put the drives back where they were originally and go into Disk Management
in Computer Management under XP and check where the BOOT drive is. Then
check where the BOOT.ini, and ntldr are. These may not be where you think
they are so this either needs fixing or you need to always remember this.
When you have confirmed where everything is, then if there is a problem fix
it first (EG do a repair and put the boot components on the front of the
Win98 disc since that has to be C: in its own view of things), then when you
alter the disc configuration always keep in mind where whatever is, how the
bios is set, and review the bios settings before attempting to boot.

IMHO, there is only 1 bios to use on 8KNXP rev 1 and that is F10. You should
not go back to an ancient pre-production bios version such as a version 2 -
maybe you meant F7? F5 was bad enough - if you had been using RAID this
could have trashed your drives. There were substantial issues with RAM
timings with bios revisions prior to and including F6 - by themselves these
could have created a nightmare for you. 8KNXP became sort of stable with F6,
but is stable / settled with F10. Bios versions F7, F8, and F9 should not be
used as they had major issues, and were correspondingly short lived.

I suggest that if you can, read any notes on the gigabyte site re the bios
versions you have used and check these against the use you have of the
different controllers (RAID, IDE, non HDD devices) and the needed device
drivers & versions. There are new ITE drivers out (for quite a while) and
updates corresponding to these in one or other bios version.

- Tim


"Karen Parker" wrote in message
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I think others have had similar problems that occurred with bios updates.

Using The Raid Controller as a ATA Controller.

All SATA disabled.

4 x Seagate Drives Dual Boot 98se/XP on 2 separate drives, connected to
IDE
3, 2 x Data drives on IDE4.


When I removed the Data drives from IDE4 the system reports
"Error Loading OS"


Plugging in a New Seagate drive not formatted, the system boots, but not
after
the drive is formatted.

In the End moved the Boot System drives from IDE3 to 4, now it boots, but
after adding a new formatted drive to IDE3 it no longer boot from either
IDE
now...???

Decided to go back to a much earlier Bios was F8 now F2, system now boots
with the System drives only connected to IDE3


Have now confirmed that I can add a formatted drive to IDE4 with out any
boot
problem.

F8 bios list SCSI-0 as the boot device, this to me is the master on
IDE3..

GA-8KNXP/GA-8I875 Ultra are similar boards and come with the same
manual.


the F2 Bios = the FB and the F8= the FH..


Its a pity that Gigabyte has not fixed this problem after all this time,
may
be the New F9 bios that should be out soon will fix it..

And its a big waste of time trying to talk to the Gigabyte Robot..