I hope that helps. Drivers load no problem. I have a Promise card also and I'm glad you mention this. I will try this weekend to install it on my Vista test machine, I only have a few days left on activation. This has worked just as I want. Also, please be sure to include in this explanation if I need to install drivers during installation and where I can find them.
Excuse my denseness but I really want to be sure before trying an install. Thanks again. As I have said, I have a Promise card but have not installed it yet. Now if you can not find the promise drivers just plug your drives in on the motherboard and don't worry about RAID. RAID will not setup unless you tell it to. The changeover went fine, but the problems started as soon as i turned it on as they usually do. It shows the little booting graphic, then scans for drives.
This is where it says "Hardware Initiate Failed, Check Cables or something to that effect " Then, under this it says "Bios Not Installed" which confuses me to death because i am able to get into the bios. So i press 'g' and it scans for something else now, i assume the other sata chip, it then finds my raptor system disk , then after that screen it asks which flavor of windows i want to load, i select the correct one and press enter, then it sits at a blank screen for a few seconds, then reboots!
So i go into the bios and look around, i have both onboard sata chips enabled i have 1 raptor true sata , and 2 ide drives using sata convertors, and 1 ide drive using ide. This brings me to my next dilemma, where can i see what sata drives it detects?!
The only drives i've ever seen it list in bios is the 1 ide drive, which does me no good. Luckily i'm at work so i don't have the temptation to smash the thing to bits, but this is driving me nuts. Does anybody have any suggestions? I plan on updating the bios during lunch today, i would've done it last night, but i let my friend borrow my floppy drive and without being able to boot to windows, i have to have it. So my friend is bringing it over during lunch, and i'm going to attempt to update the bios, but i'm not sure that will even help.
I really hope this is just a setting in the bios that i'm missing, and not a physical problem Thanks for your time. Joined Jun 23, Messages Hmm, you moved all your drives without a clean install of the OS I presume. My suggestion would be - install only the drive with the OS on it and see if it can fix the issues. Move it from one controller to the other as needed.
Looks to me like the bios or drivers for one of the chips are missing, and that is probably the one you have the OS hanging off. Joined Oct 18, Messages 15, Moving to a different mainboard was probably not appreciated by Windows. Windows NT including 2k and XP never showed much flexibility in detecting hardware changes, especially low-level stuff. You can probably just install on top of the current installation, so that it'll only install the right drivers for this mainboard.
Joined Jul 23, Messages 2, Bios not installed means no drive attatched to whatever controller you are trying to use thats why its giving loose cable message Dont know about asus bios but you have to put boot order from sata, disable raid, enable SATA, boot partition on drive active, correct jumpers, and put drive on correct connectors.
Did you format drive from before - what was old mobo? Edit: I'm fairly sure its because you have raid enabled somewhere - only one drive RAID will also give you hat message.
Also, i wasn't able to get the floppy drive, but i have a usb key, and i have the update file on it, but i have no idea in the bios where to look to see if i can update the bios with a usbkey. Do you guys know? This is with the promise sata chip, the SATA Boot ROM is the other chip the one that the drive is plugged into, and the only options it has is "enabled, and disabled'.
The motherboard is the ideal solution to enhance hard disk performance and security. Or did you reformat that partition? I'm an Intel guy. Joined Apr 25, Messages 1, The sata setup in bios needs to be set for raid or individual drives. If set to individual it will work.
Plus your board may not work with those sata converteres. You may need to plug them into one ide ribbon and put that on the promise IDE controller. But seems like you need to find out in bios how to configure your sata first. I have sata on my Asus and it's fine. I wish they would include floppy for drivers, but that's another issue.
JNavy89GT said:. Click to expand Assuming that works, would you advise that i back all that i need up, and then format the sata? You have a Promise Chip a VIA chip and a VIA chipset combo When the bios routine starts it looks for a bootable device per cmos settings, going by what is preferenced if available.
Its your job to isolate the particular SATA connection you want the bios to see. These were fixed with bios updates.
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