Hi:
Ive got an an A7N8X, version 2, and 2 Western Digital 120gb hard
drives.
I wanted to free up some space on the motherboard, so I just
bought a Promise UltraATA133 tx2 controller card.
Right now the 2 hard drives run with EZ-Bios (from W. Digital?).
I installed the card and got the drivers installed (I'm running
win98se).
I transferred the 2 drives over to the card and rebooted. The
first item on the bootup screen was the Promise BIOS loading. It
detected the 2 hard drives and said:
D0 WDC WD1200JB-00CRA1 LBA 114473MB Ultra DMA 5
D1 WDC WD1200JB-75CRA0 LBA 114473MB Ultra DMA 5
D2 not detected
D3 not detected
IDE BUS Master Enabled
it then returned to the usual bootup screens, showing cpu clock,
cache, disks, ports, devices, controllers, irq's, etc.
then:
Verifying DMI Pool Data
EZ-BIOS Initializing...
EZ-BIOS: Hold the CNTRL key down for status screen or to boot
from floppy...
EZ-BIOS: Continuing startup...
(the above 4 lines are the same as before I added the promise
card)
But now things completely change:
"Starting Windows 98..."
(then a vibrating sound, but I'm not sure where it comes from)
Then I get:
Type the name of the Command Interpreter
a:>
and then everything stops.
Basicly, it seems that the computer can't find the 2 hard drives, one
of which is "C" drive.
Here's my questions:
1. Up until now, why was this "EZ-Bios" controlling my 2 hard
drives? Where did it come from? Doesn't the Asus BIOS have the
ability to handle hard drives that are 120GB in size?
2. Is is possible that the Promise BIOS is somehow conflicting with
the EZ-BIOS, and preventing the 2 disks from being seen?
I'm way in over my head with this. Could someone suggest to me
what is going on, and what I can do to fix it.?
I DO know that if I shut the system off and reconnect the 2 hard
drives directly back into the motherboard IDE port and then reboot,
both drives are recognized.
I'm also using the 80 pin cable as required , and I do have it
aligned properly (pin 1 with pin 1) .
My (novice) guess is that something is conflicting between the 2
bios's. (And the motherboard bios makes 3!!)
Any help is very much appreciated!!!!
Ron
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