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Abit KG7-Raid and GF4 4200 not booting hard drive *solved*

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xizor

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I just installed an abit siluro geforce4 4200 on an abit kg7-raid. Everything starts up normally however the bios skips the high-point raid ide controller, which my hard drives are on. If i put back in my geforce2 gts then it boots to ide controller fine, any ideas whats going on? I have the newest bios for the KG7 and I can't really flash the bios for the card yet.

*solved*
I updated to the hacked KG7-9M w/ 2.32 hpt bios and it works now, unforunately that's the only route to go

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I have no first-hand experience with RAID setups, but are there any jumpers on the motherboard you have to switch to change from IDE to RAID, or perhaps any software settings in the BIOS to change?

Good luck.
 
Well I don't even have my drives in a raid setup, however the ide controller is RAID. the abit board is pretty much jumper less, and the board makes the bios entirely skip the ide controller like it didn't exist.

Siluro GF4 Ti4200


Also, if anyone has this file, please e-mail it to me. Its the newest siluro 4200 bios and the abit website has a broken link as well as outdate mirrors, thanks

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42003400.exe Bios Issue Date: 2002/07/29
BIOS ver 4.25.00.34.00.
When attach both analog CRT and digital LCD monitors to Siluro card, display DOS screen to both monitors before getting into Windows.

 
bump, from my searching it seems it happens on any gf4 4200, seems strange that there isn't a clear answer
 
Ifyour drives aren't in a RAID setup, just move them to the normal IDE controller (assuming you dont have them all used already)

Hess.
 
I have 4 ide devices (dvd, cdrw and 2 hd's), and I'm not going to waste my ide controller, so no, its not possible for me to do that. There should be a reasonable explanation for the geforce to interfere with the bios
 
try changing the agp settings in the bios. if you can, run the whole thing at a lower and higher voltage. I would have said it's the PSU that doesn't have enough power to run both..but it's an enermax 450...
 
if youonly have 4 IDE devices, how is that "wasting" your IDE controller?

but alas, if you must, flash back to older BIOS's and see if that solves your problem. In your BIOS you should be able to set your IRQ's and stuff by hand, make sure that your RAID controller and your AGP use different IRQ's.

Hess.
 
Putting 2 ide devices on the same port makes them share the bandwidth for that port. I have 2 very fast ata100 drives, and sharing with cdroms is a terrible idea.

The ide controller works perfect with a geforce2 gts, so I doubt the IRQ sharing is a problem, I'm inclined to believe the problem is a hardware bug between the gf4 and chipset

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