This board will not give me to option to boot from any one of my 3 SCSI CD
roms. I also have two 9 gig SCSI hard drives and a SATA 16 gig hard drive.
The boot options menu in CMOS shows only my 3 hard disks as boot options.
When I disconnect all three HD's , the only boot option that shows up is the
floppy drive. I need to reinstall windows badly, anyone have any ideas??

Have you got the boot rom in the scsi card enabled?
Without this enabled, boot options will not appear.


"The Guy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:wIt%d.744847$Xk.357874@pd7tw3no...
> This board will not give me to option to boot from any one of my 3 SCSI CD
> roms. I also have two 9 gig SCSI hard drives and a SATA 16 gig hard
> drive.
> The boot options menu in CMOS shows only my 3 hard disks as boot options.
> When I disconnect all three HD's , the only boot option that shows up is
> the
> floppy drive. I need to reinstall windows badly, anyone have any ideas??
>
>
>

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:20:12 GMT, "The Guy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>This board will not give me to option to boot from any one of my 3 SCSI CD
>roms. I also have two 9 gig SCSI hard drives and a SATA 16 gig hard drive.
>The boot options menu in CMOS shows only my 3 hard disks as boot options.
>When I disconnect all three HD's , the only boot option that shows up is the
>floppy drive. I need to reinstall windows badly, anyone have any ideas??
>
>

Also check that you are running the latest BIOS on your SCSI card and CD-ROM
devices. I had a no-boot issue until I updated to AHA-2940U2W BIOS v2.57.2
dated 8 June 2000 (available at adaptec.com), and I needed to update a CD-ROM
BIOS as well.

HTH

SCSI devices don't show up in the CMOS (sic). Use ^A to enter Adaptec setup.

"The Guy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:wIt%d.744847$Xk.357874@pd7tw3no...
> This board will not give me to option to boot from any one of my 3 SCSI CD
> roms. I also have two 9 gig SCSI hard drives and a SATA 16 gig hard drive.
> The boot options menu in CMOS shows only my 3 hard disks as boot options.
> When I disconnect all three HD's , the only boot option that shows up is
the
> floppy drive. I need to reinstall windows badly, anyone have any ideas??
>
>
>

Thanks guys, I do have the BIOS enabled and I did upgrade it to the version
you mentioned, which is most current. I get the option to select a SCSI CD
ROM as a boot device now, but now the system just hangs witha blank screen
where it would normally say press any key to boot from CD ROM. I'll play
with it a bit more to see if I can get it working.

Thanks


"H. Brown" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:20:12 GMT, "The Guy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >This board will not give me to option to boot from any one of my 3 SCSI
CD
> >roms. I also have two 9 gig SCSI hard drives and a SATA 16 gig hard
drive.
> >The boot options menu in CMOS shows only my 3 hard disks as boot options.
> >When I disconnect all three HD's , the only boot option that shows up is
the
> >floppy drive. I need to reinstall windows badly, anyone have any ideas??
> >
> >
>
> Also check that you are running the latest BIOS on your SCSI card and
CD-ROM
> devices. I had a no-boot issue until I updated to AHA-2940U2W BIOS
v2.57.2
> dated 8 June 2000 (available at adaptec.com), and I needed to update a
CD-ROM
> BIOS as well.
>
> HTH
>

Well, I upgraded everything (SCSI BIOS, firmware of one optical drive) but
was unable to find firmware for either of my two toshiba drives. Not sure
if that is the problem or not. All three drives will now who a bootable CD
ROM in the drive on startup, but the system hangs with a blinking cursor
right when "Press and key to boot from CD ROM" whould appear.

Any thoughts?


"The Guy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:wIt%d.744847$Xk.357874@pd7tw3no...
> This board will not give me to option to boot from any one of my 3 SCSI CD
> roms. I also have two 9 gig SCSI hard drives and a SATA 16 gig hard
drive.
> The boot options menu in CMOS shows only my 3 hard disks as boot options.
> When I disconnect all three HD's , the only boot option that shows up is
the
> floppy drive. I need to reinstall windows badly, anyone have any ideas??
>
>
>

cabling. termination?
Overlapping SCSI ID's?


"The Guy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:rTK%d.748074$Xk.444204@pd7tw3no...
> Well, I upgraded everything (SCSI BIOS, firmware of one optical drive) but
> was unable to find firmware for either of my two toshiba drives. Not sure
> if that is the problem or not. All three drives will now who a bootable
> CD
> ROM in the drive on startup, but the system hangs with a blinking cursor
> right when "Press and key to boot from CD ROM" whould appear.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
> "The Guy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:wIt%d.744847$Xk.357874@pd7tw3no...
>> This board will not give me to option to boot from any one of my 3 SCSI
>> CD
>> roms. I also have two 9 gig SCSI hard drives and a SATA 16 gig hard
> drive.
>> The boot options menu in CMOS shows only my 3 hard disks as boot options.
>> When I disconnect all three HD's , the only boot option that shows up is
> the
>> floppy drive. I need to reinstall windows badly, anyone have any ideas??
>>
>>
>>
>
>

I thought of that too, the problem is that I am using the exact same setp
that I used with my old machine, in fact, all I did literally, was unplug my
old MOBO (an ABIT IS7 Intel 865) and take it out and plug the new board in
with cpu and ram in. I didn't even uplug the cables from the scsi card and
it was working perfectly for 2 years before this. Very puzzling.



"Tim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:d1nuiu$oai$(E-Mail Removed)...
> cabling. termination?
> Overlapping SCSI ID's?
>
>
> "The Guy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:rTK%d.748074$Xk.444204@pd7tw3no...
> > Well, I upgraded everything (SCSI BIOS, firmware of one optical drive)
but
> > was unable to find firmware for either of my two toshiba drives. Not
sure
> > if that is the problem or not. All three drives will now who a bootable
> > CD
> > ROM in the drive on startup, but the system hangs with a blinking cursor
> > right when "Press and key to boot from CD ROM" whould appear.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> >
> > "The Guy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:wIt%d.744847$Xk.357874@pd7tw3no...
> >> This board will not give me to option to boot from any one of my 3 SCSI
> >> CD
> >> roms. I also have two 9 gig SCSI hard drives and a SATA 16 gig hard
> > drive.
> >> The boot options menu in CMOS shows only my 3 hard disks as boot
options.
> >> When I disconnect all three HD's , the only boot option that shows up
is
> > the
> >> floppy drive. I need to reinstall windows badly, anyone have any
ideas??
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

"The Guy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:UuK%d.751248$6l.555656@pd7tw2no
> Thanks guys, I do have the BIOS enabled and I did upgrade it to the version
> you mentioned,

> which is most current.

No, it is not.

> I get the option to select a SCSI CD ROM as a boot device now, but now the
> system just hangs with a blank screen where it would normally say press any
> key to boot from CD ROM. I'll play with it a bit more to see if I can get it
> working.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> "H. Brown" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:20:12 GMT, "The Guy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> >
> > > This board will not give me to option to boot from any one of my 3 SCSI CD
> > > roms. I also have two 9 gig SCSI hard drives and a SATA 16 gig hard drive.
> > > The boot options menu in CMOS shows only my 3 hard disks as boot options.
> > > When I disconnect all three HD's , the only boot option that shows up is the
> > > floppy drive. I need to reinstall windows badly, anyone have any ideas??
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Also check that you are running the latest BIOS on your SCSI card and CD-ROM
> > devices. I had a no-boot issue until I updated to AHA-2940U2W BIOS v2.57.2
> > dated 8 June 2000 (available at adaptec.com), and I needed to update a CD-ROM
> > BIOS as well.
> >
> > HTH

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:04:59 +0100, "Folkert Rienstra" <see_reply-(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>"The Guy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:UuK%d.751248$6l.555656@pd7tw2no
>> Thanks guys, I do have the BIOS enabled and I did upgrade it to the version
>> you mentioned,
>
>> which is most current.
>
>No, it is not.

Yes, it is.

What are you talking about?