A few small issues with the K7S5A I need help with

[cocokrisp]

I recently upgraded my PC's mobo and CPU. Here are some specs: 1.33ghz Athlon XP (1500+), ECS K7S5A mobo, 256MB PC2100 DDR ram, 30GB Quantum Fireball LM, Mitsumi 4x CDRW, Creative 52x CD-ROM.
I know, I have quite a few problems so please answer as many as you can.

First problem:
I can not get the CDRW drive working. I have it on the same IDE cable (plugged into the IDE2 spot on the mobo) as the CD-ROM drive, CD-ROM is set as master, CDRW is set as slave. The CD-ROM drive does work.

Second problem:
The hard drive acts odd sometimes. When turning on my pc I usually need to reset it once inorder for the hdd to be recognized in the POST process. Also, when playing games sometimes the hard drive will literally reset which causes the PC to reset (or maybe its vice-versa).

Third problem:
Well this really isn't a serious problem. Under the boot sequence I'm rather confused because they give you the option to boot off IDE0 when there is no IDE0 spot on the motherboard. Also, if I'm booting off the CD-ROM drive should I tell it to boot from IDE2 or CD-ROM?

Fourth problem (not urgent):
I can't flash the BIOS. I have followed the insructions on ecsusa.com but the flashing utility doesn't work at all. It says something like "file not found" when I launch it even though the BIOS file is right on the disk with it.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide me with!!

 

[Technican]

hi:

to flash the bios boot to "a" drive with bootable diskette containing all the flash files. then type a:\aminf326.exe 011016l.rom. Always put the rom filename after the flash program for the ECS mobo.

as far as the cd problems I would put the writer as master on the secondary controller by itself and see if windows recognizes it. I assume you have power and the secondary controller is not disabled in the bios.

The boot up sequence I use is floppy, ide0, cd-rom drive. It should be set up that way so that you can flash the bios from the floppy drive anyway.

hope this helps somewhat!

 

[Jalidi]

Actually, you really should copy the flashing executable and bios ROM to the hard drive and flash it from there... just in the very small chance that your floppy gets screwed up, it'd be a nightmare with a dead board if the flashing crashed halfway through, and it's happened.

Got the same board, and when I was building my system, I couldn't for the life of me get the hard drive and CD-RW to work on the same IDE strip... same suggestion as Technican made, plugging one of your devices into the second IDE channel will solve your problem, I have both of my IDE drives as Master in the device recognition during bootup, with the Slave slots deactivated in the bios. My bootup goes Floppy>CD-ROM>IDE0 ... simply because I'm planning to install WinXP pretty soon from CD.