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HELP Athlon 64 3000 & K8V SE and Ultra160 SCSI problems!!
I just ran into the following problem in a big way... new install of K8V SE
and Athlon 64 3000+ and had nopthing but a nightmare with my Ultra160 SCSI Hard drives (including the one which was my OS Drive!) All SCSI Hard Drives worked 100% fine on old Athlon XP 1600 System thru ASUS A7M 266 mainboard. At present the system did install Windows XP to an EIDE drive via an EIDE DVD burner-drive however my SCSI hardware seems to now be unusable. The odd thing about this is that the system does recognize the Adaptec 29160 controller, does post all devices in the boot sequence without a problem, does recognize all scsi hard drives as valid hard drives but the system will not boot to Windows with any 1, all or a combination of them connected to the scsi card. Anyone have any Ideas on this? |
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The Nicholson's wrote:
I just ran into the following problem in a big way... new install of K8V SE and Athlon 64 3000+ and had nopthing but a nightmare with my Ultra160 SCSI Hard drives (including the one which was my OS Drive!) All SCSI Hard Drives worked 100% fine on old Athlon XP 1600 System thru ASUS A7M 266 mainboard. At present the system did install Windows XP to an EIDE drive via an EIDE DVD burner-drive however my SCSI hardware seems to now be unusable. The odd thing about this is that the system does recognize the Adaptec 29160 controller, does post all devices in the boot sequence without a problem, does recognize all scsi hard drives as valid hard drives but the system will not boot to Windows with any 1, all or a combination of them connected to the scsi card. Anyone have any Ideas on this? How many PCI cards do you have total and which slot are you putting the 29160 in? I have a 29160N card and had no problems with it on a MSI K8T Neo FSR board. Even install x64 on my SCSI drive. |
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On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 07:28:19 -0400, Dee wrote:
The Nicholson's wrote: I just ran into the following problem in a big way... new install of K8V SE and Athlon 64 3000+ and had nopthing but a nightmare with my Ultra160 SCSI Hard drives (including the one which was my OS Drive!) All SCSI Hard Drives worked 100% fine on old Athlon XP 1600 System thru ASUS A7M 266 mainboard. At present the system did install Windows XP to an EIDE drive via an EIDE DVD burner-drive however my SCSI hardware seems to now be unusable. The odd thing about this is that the system does recognize the Adaptec 29160 controller, does post all devices in the boot sequence without a problem, does recognize all scsi hard drives as valid hard drives but the system will not boot to Windows with any 1, all or a combination of them connected to the scsi card. Anyone have any Ideas on this? How many PCI cards do you have total and which slot are you putting the 29160 in? I have a 29160N card and had no problems with it on a MSI K8T Neo FSR board. Even install x64 on my SCSI drive. Blinding the statingly obvious - have you checked your boot devices and boot order? Does windows give any error messages? Does booting in "safe" mode help any? You also might want to try a different PCI slot - I've had issues with older boards and cards that have caused a great deal of hassle - see if you can use a slot that has it's own INT# (ie no sharing). This should help to rule out an IRQ conflict. |
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Howdy All,
Much appreciated for the feedback on this issue which, alas, is the source of much grief. As far as PCI usage I have the following: SB Live 5.1 Adaptec USB - Fire Wire Adaptec 29160 I did try changing the scsi card around but after 2 different slots I figured the problem may have been with the mainboard bios itself and not an irq conflict. As far as booting into windows... the system, as mentioned, recognizes controller on boot/post, bios recognizes all scsi and eide drives yet after bios-post it refuses to acknowledge any drives being connected at all (either my scsi drive that used to be my OS drive, the other scsi drives or even the eide drive) I will attempt to place the scsi card in yet a different slot in hopes of it working and will in turn post my findings as an FYI to all. One question remains however, would there be an easy way for me to determine if the PCI slot is actually sharing the IRQ assigned to it? thxs again for all the help... much appreciated. "mouse_launcher" wrote in message news On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 07:28:19 -0400, Dee wrote: The Nicholson's wrote: I just ran into the following problem in a big way... new install of K8V SE and Athlon 64 3000+ and had nopthing but a nightmare with my Ultra160 SCSI Hard drives (including the one which was my OS Drive!) All SCSI Hard Drives worked 100% fine on old Athlon XP 1600 System thru ASUS A7M 266 mainboard. At present the system did install Windows XP to an EIDE drive via an EIDE DVD burner-drive however my SCSI hardware seems to now be unusable. The odd thing about this is that the system does recognize the Adaptec 29160 controller, does post all devices in the boot sequence without a problem, does recognize all scsi hard drives as valid hard drives but the system will not boot to Windows with any 1, all or a combination of them connected to the scsi card. Anyone have any Ideas on this? How many PCI cards do you have total and which slot are you putting the 29160 in? I have a 29160N card and had no problems with it on a MSI K8T Neo FSR board. Even install x64 on my SCSI drive. Blinding the statingly obvious - have you checked your boot devices and boot order? Does windows give any error messages? Does booting in "safe" mode help any? You also might want to try a different PCI slot - I've had issues with older boards and cards that have caused a great deal of hassle - see if you can use a slot that has it's own INT# (ie no sharing). This should help to rule out an IRQ conflict. |
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Howdy All, Much appreciated for the feedback on this issue which, alas, is the source of much grief. As far as PCI usage I have the following: SB Live 5.1 Adaptec USB - Fire Wire Adaptec 29160 I did try changing the scsi card around but after 2 different slots I figured the problem may have been with the mainboard bios itself and not an irq conflict. As far as booting into windows... the system, as mentioned, recognizes controller on boot/post, bios recognizes all scsi and eide drives yet after bios-post it refuses to acknowledge any drives being connected at all (either my scsi drive that used to be my OS drive, the other scsi drives or even the eide drive) I will attempt to place the scsi card in yet a different slot in hopes of it working and will in turn post my findings as an FYI to all. One question remains however, would there be an easy way for me to determine if the PCI slot is actually sharing the IRQ assigned to it? thxs again for all the help... much appreciated. Hopefully your M/B manual has a table listing the sharing assignments. Failing that, you may have some luck on the web site. I have a system with an A7V8X-X M/B (Athlon Socket A) and it has the table in question under Expansion Slots, IRQ Assignments. To try to save you time and aggrivation, I suggest removing the other two cards until you get the SCSI working - this will keep the number of potential variables in the system low whilst you locate a compatible slot. Something worth also looking at briefly is the RAM you are using. If you can test the RAM in another system, this may give some results. Can you boot the system with the card in but no drives attached? |
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