A7V133 Promise ATA IDE Raid Controller problem

[elyliu]

I recently put together a AMD T-bird system with the ASUS A7V133 mobo. I'm running on Win 98 OS. Initially, when starting the computer it would go through a FastTrak Builder where it is searching for an array. Since, I'm not using RAID on my system, an array is not defined as it says. Now to disable this, I figured to do so in the BIOS so that it would go straight to starting Win 98 without loading up FastTrak. Now, Win 98 asks me for a PCI IDE Raid Controller driver that I can't find anywhere. Does anyone else have this problem? And if so, any solutions? Thanks.

 

[Dulanic]

Read the manual man.... you need to change a jumper to turn off IDE RAID and just use ATA100.

 

[elyliu]

I read your post and I was thinking, that might be it. To my dismay, after opening up my system, it has already been set on to ATA/100 only. That was the default setting so that isn't the part that is causing the problem.

 

[nealh]

I think what you are seeing in the initial boot is the Promise controller looking for any drives attached to IDE3 & 4 controller which is the promise controller..if you want to use it place a HDD on IDE 3 or 4 otherwise do not worry about it.....it will have no effect...it is looking for drives not drivers...if you are using it go to device manager mass storage controller ..properties then look on the the Asus CD and find ATA100 drivers for W95/98 or whatever OS and install them...

The promise bios is just looking for a HDD in case you boot off this ...it will not effect the system.