Asus A7V : Disabling Promise 100 IDE Controller

[MjrDisaster]

I decided that I don't really need the ATA/100, since my HD is ATA/66 anyway and I needed a free IRQ. So I disconnected my HD from the primary ATA/100 connector and connected it to the primary IDE connector (the non ATA/100 one).

Then I uninstalled the ATA/100 drivers, rebooted, and everything seems fine, but now the Promise ATA/100 controller shows like a "PCI Mass Storage Controller" in Device Manager, and if I remove it Windows 98 will detect it again on the next reboot. I can disable it of course, but I would like to get rid of it.

I went thru the BIOS screens, but I didn't find any option to disable ATA100, I did disable the "Load ATA100 BIOS" option and the Promise controller doesn't do it's detection number anymore, however it still shows as a Pci Mass Storage Controller (on IRQ 10) on the BIOS load screen, and it is still detected by Win98. Also changing the PNP OS option doesn't change anything.

I am running Win98, the 1007 BIOS, and the A7V (non-Raid) is revision 1.05.

Any suggestion ?

 

[Inteless]

Can you disable it in Device Manager? Just an idea, might give that
a try.

Inteless

 

[MjrDisaster]

Yes I can, but I don't like to see the "disabled" icon (ok, I'm somewhat anal about these things ), and more important, I am not very sure it is completely disabled - for one thing Win98 will put a ACPI IRQ Holder on IRQ10, (the same IRQ that BIOS gives to the Promise controller), and no other peripheral is using IRQ10, so it's the first time I see a IRQ Holder in a unused IRQ :Q.

Then I plan to install Linux too, and I would like to spare myself the hassle of detecting and configuring a controller that I'm not using anyway...

 

[fluxcapacitorMB]

Ask the guys on this A7V specific forum