From: meijin :Subject: [PCBUILD] ABIT BE6-II (Part 3)


> Man, I am really getting tired of this!
>
> Might any of you have an idea as to why adding a Promise card to my unit
> would keep it from booting? No matter what slot I add it too, the unit
gets
> power and now video and will not boot.
>
> I disabled the HPT controller in the BIOS and in Windows, but the Promise
> just will not work in any slot.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David Ray
>

David,

Which drive are you trying to boot from, and which cable is attached to the
drive?  Are all of the connections to the drive securely attached and in the
correct order according to the color of the connector?  Are you trying to
boot from a floppy or to the hard drive which has the OS already installed?
Is the drive recognized in the Promise BIOS during boot?  Did you assign an
IRQ to the Video card and the Promise controller in the BIOS according to
the PCI slot each is occupying and change the 'Resources Controlled By' to
manual in the BIOS?  Are you using Partition Magic or DOS fdisk and format?
Is the Sound Blaster live card still in the computer and which IRQ's is it
using?  Is the boot order set up correctly, i.e.: first boot device -
floppy, second boot device - UDMA66 ?  Did you enable 'Force Update ESCD' in
the BIOS?

Mary Wolden

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