I have a BP6, but if I remember right the BE6-2 also has the same ATA66
controller on it. If you are trying to use the ATA66 ports, windows will not
recognize it without installing the drivers for it.

You should install windows with the drive on a 33 port, then move it to the
66 port after installing the drivers for it.  You should also check for a
newer bios for your motherboard, it will upgrade the ATA66 controller's bios
as well.  Or you could just not use the ATA66 ports - I know a lot of people
have had problems with it.

Hope this helps,

Jeff McConnell

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Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 4:57 PM
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Subject: [PCBUILD] BE6I r 11 Motherboard problem


System: Abit BE6 r 2 m/b; Win98; 128mb.dram;celeron 486 (not overclocked);
Maxtor h./d x2 (8Gb and 10Gb); Matrox G220 video card; 3com nic;adaptec scsi
card; Hauppage wintv card;winmodem and soundblaster 64 sound card

I swapped out my Abit BH6 motherboard and replaced it with an Abit BE6 r II
earlier this week. I set the bios with its default settings but changed the
setup to recognise two hard drives and two floppy drives. I attempted to
boot up but everything stopped with the message "Write fault error writing
device AUX. Abort, retry, ignore, fail" When I tried any of the options they
simply repeated down the screen. I aborted and tried again but once more
with the same result.

I then decided to reinstall Win 98. This went well until the system
attempted to load all plug and play devices. At this point everything froze
up. After numerous retries with the same result I removed all cards except
the vga card and retried but still without success. I then hooked up another
hard drive that I had, formatted it and loaded Win 98. This went through
without a hitch and I was able to boot up and run Windows. I concluded from
this, rightly or wrongly, that I did not have a hard ware problem so I tried
my original setup with my two hard drives but still without success.

At this moment I am stuck and am trying to avoid the prospect of a reformat.
I do have a full backup although it is about a month old so all is not lost
but I am hoping to avoid losing all my settings and my most recent mail
messages.

Can anyone suggest the way forward? I think I have reached the end of my
limited knowledge base and need to turn to the experts. Help!!

Gerry
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