Asus A7V 133 and Mass Storage Device

[Tideman]

I have an Asus A7V with an Athlon 900 processor.

Bios is detecting a PCI Mass Storage Device that does not exist and Winders has it listed under Unknown Devices as a Mass Storage Device.

How can I get my system not to recognize this device on bootup?

System works fine, but I like my Device Manager to look neat and clean...hehe...

 

[sohcrates]

it's most likely your "mass storage controller" which is your onboard ata100 promise controller. go to asus's site and download the promise ata100 onboard IDE controller drivers for your A7V and install them and you should be golden.

 

[SammyBoy]

u can install them off of the CD that your board came with too

 

[Emory7]

I had the same problem and did install the driver but my Win2k Sandra scores are BAD...like 15000 for my ATA-100 Maxtor. I have applied Sp2 and hotfix to no avail. My question, when she boots she says detecting and then says no ez drive ata 100 connected...Whats up with that?

 

[Emory7]

I had the same problem and did install the driver but my Win2k Sandra scores are BAD...like 15000 for my ATA-100 Maxtor. I have applied Sp2 and hotfix to no avail. My question, when she boots she says detecting and then says no ez drive ata 100 connected...Whats up with that?

 

[bacillus]

<< ...Whats up with that? >>


are you using an ata66/100 ide cable?? :frown:

 

[Emory7]

Thanks for the reply, I am using the correct cable.

 

[NateSLC]

<< ATA-100 Maxtor >>



Is the drive 5400 RPM or 7200? I have a 20 Gig Maxtor ATA-100 5400RPM drive that gets the same scores. It's just a slow drive. Also, make sure you've got DMA enabled. When you update IDE drivers they tend to revert to a DMA disabled status.

 

[Emory7]

Ultra DMa is enabled...it is a 7200 30 gig Maxtor 100 Ata drive.

 

[drewski]

Emory 7 -

Was the drive moved from a different system? &quot;Ez Drive&quot; sounds like a BIOS overlay for accessing larger hard-drives. This should not be needed on the A7V as it's BIOS can already access the larger drives natively.

If ultra-DMA is enabled in your Device Manager and you're still having some performance issues, I would suggest you remove this EZ-drive.

 

[Emory7]

Thanks for the replies, sorry EZ drive was a bad flashback

What it says is, &quot;Ultra 100 bios is not installed because no drives are attached&quot;.

 

[drewski]

Don't worry about the Ultra 100 message (unles, of course, your drive is connected to the Promise ports).

Try applying the hotfix again. For some odd reason, it didn't work for me either the first time (or the second time, or third time, if I recall). I also reinstalled the Via IDE drivers from the 4-in-1.

My ATA-100 drive now scores ~23000 in Sandra.

 

[Emory7]

Appreciate all the help but the hotfix will not apply over sp2. I did apply it more than once before installing sp2.