ASUS A7V333 unable to boot from Pioneer DVD-ROM 305 SCSI?

[Moozie]

I have an ASUS A7V333 Mainboard.
And 2 scsi cd-roms:
1) A slow Philips SCSI burner
and
2)Pioneer DVD-ROM 305 SCSI

My A7V333 mainboard should be able to boot from cd-rom. But in the
BIOS it don't recognize one of the cd-rom players. I guess this is
because they are not IDE but SCSI. So I can set the bios to boot from
cd-rom, but the possible cd-roms are empty.

What can I do?
I tried looking for new firmware for the Pioneer DVD-305, but the
readme scares me a bit. Because it said that it's for Win 98 or NT
machines. And I use neither: I use Win2000. Isn't that a bit of
both...?

I hear people talk about updating the bios. But that's totally new for
me. I do not have DOS installed on my pc. I do have a Win98 startup
disk that I sometimes use, but is that OK for using if you want to
update the bios?

Can somebody help?

 

[Hippy Paul]

I have an ASUS A7V333 Mainboard.
And 2 scsi cd-roms:
1) A slow Philips SCSI burner
and
2)Pioneer DVD-ROM 305 SCSI

My A7V333 mainboard should be able to boot from cd-rom. But in the
BIOS it don't recognize one of the cd-rom players. I guess this is
because they are not IDE but SCSI. So I can set the bios to boot from
cd-rom, but the possible cd-roms are empty.

Is there not an option to boot from scsi - and if it is a half decent scsi
card it should let you configure the scsi boot device.

Do not use scsi on my a7v333 but when I had 2 scsi cd devices on another
machine and win 98 - the w98 set up would only ever find one and made it a
pain to install windows - used to disconnect the one configured as a slave
and let it cope with just one device.

Is the cd you want to boot from (presume win 98) actually bootable as not
all versions are - but there were (i think) retail versions and OEM
versions - one would boot other would not

What can I do?
I tried looking for new firmware for the Pioneer DVD-305, but the
readme scares me a bit. Because it said that it's for Win 98 or NT
machines. And I use neither: I use Win2000. Isn't that a bit of
both...?

suspect is just old and is their way of saying that the firmware works with
all windows OS. Firmware should not usually have to be configured for
software - but the other way around.

I hear people talk about updating the bios. But that's totally new for
me. I do not have DOS installed on my pc. I do have a Win98 start-up
disk that I sometimes use, but is that OK for using if you want to
update the bios?

updating what - the A7v333 or the dvd?

if it is the mobo do *NOT* attempt to use the asus automated update things -
there is a *VERY* good chance it will render your board useless - use the
floppy disk method

can you not make a start up boot disk from windows - and just delete the
autoexec.bat and config.sys files to get a clean system boot.

 

[Stephan Grossklass]

I have an ASUS A7V333 Mainboard.
And 2 scsi cd-roms:
1) A slow Philips SCSI burner
and
2)Pioneer DVD-ROM 305 SCSI

My A7V333 mainboard should be able to boot from cd-rom. But in the
BIOS it don't recognize one of the cd-rom players. I guess this is
because they are not IDE but SCSI. So I can set the bios to boot from
cd-rom, but the possible cd-roms are empty.

What can I do?

The BIOS should boot from SCSI. The rest like selecting the device to
boot from must be done with the SCSI host adapter's setup.

Stephan

 

[Ghislain]

I don't know what SCSI controller you have, but the boot from CD option on
an Adaptec 2940U and better controller can be enabled. If a bootable CD is
in the CD-ROM drive, the system should be able to boot from it.

 

[Wazza]

I can not follow your thoughts here. A scsi pci card costs a little over
$100 yet for that price, maybe just a couple of dollars more, you could have
bought a new burner and a new dvd rom drive.