I do not recommend this, but what you could try is pretty simple, and risky.
first, make sure you have good backup of everything, just in case. This is
very very important!
Now, make the change in BIOS, boot from SCSI before onboard IDE, power down
system and physically switch HDDs, put the one from onboard IDE to siig
card, and the one from siig card to onboard IDE.
power up, and prey, it may work (windows may ask for reboot few times). If
it doesn't, you will have to reinstall windows (if you really want to boot
from siig card), during first boot from XP CD, as soon as you see any
display, press F6, and keep doing it, unless you could see the message
"Press F6 if you have ..." disappear (this keep press F6 may sound overkill,
but just make sure you don't miss it), then you should be asked to press
"S", once you press S, you will get a screen to give you some instruction,
and press "S" again, then insert the siig driver disk into floppy drive and
press "enter". and just select the right driver and following the on screen
instructions. if your siig card didn't have a driver disk on floppy, you
will have to make one, most of them (IDE controller cards) have a program to
make such disk.
Jun Qian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Allen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 11:36 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] siig controller
> Hi, I've been reading and learning from this list for over a year.
> Thank you. Now I have a question.
> I have a Dell 4400 bios A03 with two WD hard drives. OS -XP
> Yesterday I installed a Siig controller SC-Pe4B12.
> Installed ok, looks ok in Device manager.
> Have one hard drive on primary master on motherboard controller.
> Have second hard drive on primary master on Siig controller.
> Now XP is loading from the hard drive motherboard controller.
> I would like to learn how to load the OS from the hard drive on the
> Siig controller.
>
> This is what I've done so far. Went into the Dell cmos setup, Boot
> and changed the first hard drive to be the one on the Siig
> controller.
> That did not work for me. Got a big warning page.
> I see nothing in the Siig cmos that would help.
>
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