It just won't go.

[Defcon_IV]

I just installed a new PCI-IDE adapter and everything was working fine (after a little trying), until I went and reinstalled Win2k. I changed the boot sequence in BIOS, reinstalled from CD, went back and changed the sequence so the main harddisk was the primary boot device, and it started to run...threw an error I'll ask about in a different forum...went on and now it sticks on the PCI devices detection screen. (The one that usually flashes for all of 0.5 seconds.) Any ideas on what's wrong, and more importantly how to fix it?


Oh yeah, first post, thanks for having me...Gen. Keebler introduced me here...and as a co-worker I hate him because he embarrases me constantly by finding the small errors I overlook...

[Park_7677]

Could you give us the IDE layout?

I.E.:

Onboard
IDE-0:
Master: 40GB w/ Windows
Slave: 80GB w/ Personal Data

IDE-1:
Master: CD-RW
Slave: DVD-ROM

Controller 0
Master: 20GB

......

So on and so on.

If possible, remove the Controller and see if it boots. If it does, try the controller in a different PCI slot. Try it in all the free ones until either you tried them all or it works. Report back here with what all happened.




and...


Welcome to Short-Media :)

[Clutch]

Your primary hard drive is on ide1 right? What drives are hooked up to your adapter? Have you double checked in the bios to make sure everything is correct?

[Defcon_IV]

<b>Onboard:</b>
IDE-0:
Master 20G /w "newly installed" Win2k

IDE-1:
CD-RW

PCI-to-IDE Card:
250G x2 on Cable Select

<b>External</b>
SCSI Array:
120G Master
20G Slave
(and sitting waiting to roll)

USB2:
200g


I don't know that the problem is with the PCI card. When it starts up it detects all of the devices working fine...it just doesn't go beyond that. And the PCI devices detection screen is where it detects everything from the USB2, Video card, etc. So I can't take out all of those.

I've gone through BIOS several times already and so have three of my co-workers...it should be fine.

[Lincoln]

It's okay though, he gets me back by referring to me as "sub-mod". ;)

We're pretty stumped on this one. We flashed the BIOS a little bit ago, and ever since then the memory test gets to the max and then loops infinitely also... don't know if that's related. It was booting up fine (after bypassing the mem test) before the OS reinstall though

[TheLostSwede]

Thats card, does it support 250 gig drives on the current bios?
Does it boot up ok WITHOUT the drives, just keep the card in.
Test one drive.
Swap pci slot.

Try that order.

Mac

BTW, Welcome Defcon! :D

[Defcon_IV]

I had the entire machine working w/ all the drives connected before. I then did the reinstall and now it's trash. So I know the card supports it...I tried it with the PCI card detached but it was a no go and all of the other PCI slots are claimed by special cards...we're getting a new IDE cable for the PCI card, 133 instead of 100, so we're letting it sit until then. If anyone else has a good idea cool, but I'll let you know what works out in a day or two.

[TheLostSwede]

Ok, i see.

Can you try to put just the bootdrive on one of those channels, no other harddrives connected? Change the bios to boot from Raid or Other only. No 2:nd or 3:rd options.

[WuGgaRoO]

maybe u need to install a third party raid or scusi device...i dont know if thats sumthing in the win2k bootup...but in windows xp....Reing had just bought a 200gig WD HD and he had to use a "third party" ide device...but he also had to install the drivers while windows was being intalled for the first time...

[El Cheapo]

Lose the "cable select" on the card,and go with a "master/slave config.
In my experience,cable select generally sucks--and if the card doesn't like your jumper settings,it's gonna do just what yours is doing.

ec

[Defcon_IV]

Alright, thanks everyone. Despite the fact that nothing worked completely on the box in 2k we just decided to put XP on it. We've had problems with XP and our video capture equipment before, but hopefully we can smooth those out this time...if not you'll see me back here.