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SIIG Ultra ATA/66 and Windows 2000
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Kyle Elmblade <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:
Wed, 12 Jul 2000 08:22:35 -0700
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Help!  I bought a SIIG Ultra ATA/66 card to put into my system and it will not work with Windows 2000 properly.  I was able to load Windows 98 without a hitch.

I inserted the driver disk at the beginning of the install when asked (making sure to press F6 at the very beginning).  Everything looks like it's doing what it's supposed to until it tries to load the GUI portion of the install.  Then, time begins to stand still.  It takes over 30 minutes for the system to finally access the drive.  In the mean-time I can see it seeking the drive.  The drive light goes solid for a little bit, blinks a few times, then goes out for a little bit, then the process starts all over again.  After the 30 minutes it finally starts loading.

I suffered through the entire process one time.  This took nearly four hours.  Every time the system needed to reboot it would go through the non-GUI startup fine, but as soon as the GUI screen came up it would take 20-30 minutes to load the rest.  It seemed to work o.k. once it was loaded, but a 20-30 minute boot is not acceptable.  I went to the SIIG site and downloaded Windows 2000 specific drivers, and the flash for the BIOS, so everything there is as updated as possible.

My system:  ABIT BH6 (rev 1.0 I think), Intel Celeron 300A (not over-clocked at this time), 128MB PC100 Generic RAM, Primary HD on ATA/66 = Seagate Medalist 8641 8.3GB, Secondary HD on ATA/66 = Maxtor 8.0GB, Primary IDE on motherboard is disabled, Secondary IDE on Motherboard has a Toshiba CD ROM set as master, Diamond Viper V550 16MB video, Sound Blaster PCI128 Sound, Apache A56SP-RA ISA modem, USR 56k ISA modem.

One thing I did try was pulling the card and loading Windows 2000 on the regular IDE channels.  This worked without issue, so I know it has something to do with the card.

I've emailed tech support at SIIG, but haven't received a response yet.  I wanted to know what you people thought first.  Thanks in advance.

Kyle Elmblade
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