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A7N8X Deluxe SATA boot issue
Listonians--
I just installed WinXP Pro on a Seagate SATA drive (c:\) and I'm now trying to restore my legacy drives to the system. The system sees the IDE drives D: and E:, but when I try to add a drive back using a Maxtor Promise Ultra133 TX2 PCI IDE Controller (recognized as a scsi controller), my system refuses to boot, saying that NTLR is missing. I'm out of IDE connections on the mobo, the second IDE is filled with my CDROM and a LS120. It appears that the mobo is having trouble resolving the boot device, looking at the Maxtor Promise Ultra133 card as the boot device instead of the SATA. Without a drive attached to the Ultra133, the system boots fine, with the drive attached, no go. Similar things happen when I put my Adaptec SCSI card and SCSI drive back into the picture. Any way to force the Silicon Image to be the first SCSI device in the boot sequence? Thanks, Doug |
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I am having similar problem with a Promise SX4000 Raid controller...
Everything works fine (A7N8X rocks!) until I install the Promise. My particular error is something about NTOSKRNL being corrupt, though it isn't, since everything starts working immediately after removing the Promise card. This really sucks, since I have 800gb of customer data in a RAID array on that card... I have an email in to Promise tech support, hopefully they'll reply sometime soon. If I find a solution, I'll post it here. Gary "WDG" wrote in message .. . Listonians-- I just installed WinXP Pro on a Seagate SATA drive (c:\) and I'm now trying to restore my legacy drives to the system. The system sees the IDE drives D: and E:, but when I try to add a drive back using a Maxtor Promise Ultra133 TX2 PCI IDE Controller (recognized as a scsi controller), my system refuses to boot, saying that NTLR is missing. I'm out of IDE connections on the mobo, the second IDE is filled with my CDROM and a LS120. It appears that the mobo is having trouble resolving the boot device, looking at the Maxtor Promise Ultra133 card as the boot device instead of the SATA. Without a drive attached to the Ultra133, the system boots fine, with the drive attached, no go. Similar things happen when I put my Adaptec SCSI card and SCSI drive back into the picture. Any way to force the Silicon Image to be the first SCSI device in the boot sequence? Thanks, Doug |
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In article 3%ZTa.43277$AD3.13630@lakeread04, "Gary Ellington"
wrote: I am having similar problem with a Promise SX4000 Raid controller... Everything works fine (A7N8X rocks!) until I install the Promise. My particular error is something about NTOSKRNL being corrupt, though it isn't, since everything starts working immediately after removing the Promise card. This really sucks, since I have 800gb of customer data in a RAID array on that card... I have an email in to Promise tech support, hopefully they'll reply sometime soon. If I find a solution, I'll post it here. Gary The load order is influenced by PCI address select. Within the PCI slots, for example, the slots nearer the processor are loaded before the slots farther from the processor. However, the SATA cannot be moved, and unless Asus was a bit clever in selecting PCI address decodes, you probably cannot beat the problem by moving the card. The only way to know, would be if you could find a utility that knows the physical_address of the SIIG chip and of a card in a PCI slot (if you know the address map, then you can figure out whether moving the card will help or not). Some BIOS have more options for boot devices, and I think someone mentioned selecting boot from "INTxx" was a way to distinguish devices. But the A7N8X doesn't have such an option. If the SIIG chip had drivers that made the SIIG look like IDE, that would be another way to fix it, but then there would be resource conflicts between the builtin PATA interfaces and the SIIG. Would it help if you had some kind of multiboot thing installed on the device you don't want to boot from, which would redirect the boot process to the device you do want to boot from ? I don't know all the details, but maybe that will give the system a stub to keep it happy during boot. HTH, Paul "WDG" wrote in message .. . Listonians-- I just installed WinXP Pro on a Seagate SATA drive (c:\) and I'm now trying to restore my legacy drives to the system. The system sees the IDE drives D: and E:, but when I try to add a drive back using a Maxtor Promise Ultra133 TX2 PCI IDE Controller (recognized as a scsi controller), my system refuses to boot, saying that NTLR is missing. I'm out of IDE connections on the mobo, the second IDE is filled with my CDROM and a LS120. It appears that the mobo is having trouble resolving the boot device, looking at the Maxtor Promise Ultra133 card as the boot device instead of the SATA. Without a drive attached to the Ultra133, the system boots fine, with the drive attached, no go. Similar things happen when I put my Adaptec SCSI card and SCSI drive back into the picture. Any way to force the Silicon Image to be the first SCSI device in the boot sequence? Thanks, Doug |
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Nope, no such bios setting on the A7N8X, and no jumper relating to the
onboard IDE either... Promise seems to be ignoring my email also... I wonder if Newegg will take this board back.... "Paul H" wrote in message ... is there an option to select the ATA boot rom first in the bios, as there is on the A7V8X? in the bios under Advanced, PCI configuration, enable onboard ATA boot rom and ensure onboard ATA device first is set to yes then under boot, the option SCSI/Onboard ATA Boot Device should be selected |
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