Unable to find XP driver for SIIG UltraATA 133 PCI Contoller

[Guest]

I have a HP Vectra VL 400 series pc with a 200 Gig Western Digital Hardrive.
I bought a Siig UltraATA 133 PCI controller for the hard drive but whenever I
try to boot the drives with the Siig contoller all I get is a blinking
cursor. XP does not load. I have to go back to my other controller to boot
XP. XP recognizes the new controller and says it is working properly.
According to SIIG tech support, I have to use the XP driver. They say it is
part of XP??? I am unable to find it on my XP CD. Does anyone know what to
do or what SIIG is talking about in using the XP driver?

Thanks.

Alan

 

[Sleepless in Seattle]

Drivers are here http://www.siig.com/driver.asp?pid=437

If you get a blinking cursor you have more wrong than a missing driver.

 

[R. McCarty]

Windows XP is using the original IDE Controller driver to boot the
PC. Even though you've added the Siig card to your system, it isn't
designated as the boot device. When you boot your PC, do you see
a Siig screen ?, You have to configure the PC/Siig card to be the
Boot controller. Are you still using the on-board IDE channels to
handle other devices or have you moved them to the UltraATA card
with the drive. Also do you intend to use both the built-in IDE
channels and the Siig card as well ?

 

[Guest]

Yes I see the Siig screen and it recognizes my hard drives. My original
configuration was with a Promise Ultra ATA 100 pci controller that came with
the Hard drive. The on board ide contollers are being used form my CD/DVD
rom burners. Basically I want to migrate to this new controller for my hard
drives.
How do I configure the SIIG card to be the boot controller? There is no
config utility that came with the card. The card has jumpers but they are
for raid/ide and ide 1 and ide2.

Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Jonah,

I don't think there is anything else wrong though because when I put the
original controller back in place, the XP boots up fine. I did find the
SIIG drivers on their website, but again SIIG tech support states I am to use
the XP driver which is supposed to be a part of XP. They say this because I
am usng the card in a system that has XP already loaded. If I were building
a new XP box, I would be able to use the provided SIIG driver.

Alan

 

[kurttrail]

Jonah,

I don't think there is anything else wrong though because when I put
the original controller back in place, the XP boots up fine. I did
find the SIIG drivers on their website, but again SIIG tech support
states I am to use the XP driver which is supposed to be a part of
XP. They say this because I am usng the card in a system that has XP
already loaded. If I were building a new XP box, I would be able to
use the provided SIIG driver.

You may have to do a repair install to get the PCI IDE controller card
to function properly, especially if you want to boot through it. You'll
need to copy the XP drivers from the web site on a floppy and hit the F6
key almost immediately after XP gets to the blue setup screen.

For XP repair Installation

1. Power off the system. Connect the hard drives to the SIIG
controller and insert the controller into a PCI slot. Power up
the system.

2. Put your Windows 2000/XP CD into the CD-ROM/DVD drive, or
the 2000/XP boot diskette #1 in the floppy drive if your
system cannot boot from the CD.

3. Press F6 for third party SCSI or driver installation at the beginning
of text mode installation. Press 's' when setup asks if you want to
specify an additional device, and insert the diskette labeled
'UltraATA 133 PCI Installation Disk' .

Press 'Enter' and select
'SiI 0680 ATA/133 Controller'

4. Press 'Enter' to continue on with text mode setup.

5. Then follow Michael Stevens instructions to do a repair install:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

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[kurttrail]

You may have to do a repair install to get the PCI IDE controller card
to function properly, especially if you want to boot through it.
You'll need to copy the XP drivers from the web site on a floppy and
hit the F6 key almost immediately after XP gets to the blue setup
screen.
For XP repair Installation

1. Power off the system. Connect the hard drives to the SIIG
controller and insert the controller into a PCI slot. Power up
the system.

2. Put your Windows 2000/XP CD into the CD-ROM/DVD drive, or
the 2000/XP boot diskette #1 in the floppy drive if your
system cannot boot from the CD.

3. Press F6 for third party SCSI or driver installation at the
beginning of text mode installation. Press 's' when setup asks if
you want to specify an additional device, and insert the diskette
labeled 'UltraATA 133 PCI Installation Disk' .

Press 'Enter' and select
'SiI 0680 ATA/133 Controller'

4. Press 'Enter' to continue on with text mode setup.

5. Then follow Michael Stevens instructions to do a repair install:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Oh! And you'll need set your BIOS to boot to the SIIG card.

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[Guest]

Kurt,

Thanks for the advice. I will try it later after I back up a few things. I
did try to find the setting in my bios to boot to the SIIG card, but there
was no such setting.

Thanks.

Alan

 

[kurttrail]

Kurt,

Thanks for the advice. I will try it later after I back up a few
things. I did try to find the setting in my bios to boot to the SIIG
card, but there was no such setting.

Do you have the option to boot to a SCSI device?

What is the make and model of your motherboard? I'll do a search in the
morning to see about the setting, if you want.

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[kurttrail]

Do you have the option to boot to a SCSI device?

What is the make and model of your motherboard? I'll do a search in
the morning to see about the setting, if you want.

The other option in the BIOS that might help you out, is to enable the
Boot to Other Device option, if you have it. As long as you don't have
another boot device, like a Floppy disk in your floppy drive, you should
be able to boot through the SIIG controller.

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