*AV35GTR Owners, come in, please!* Shuttle AV35GTR - having probs getting HPT driver to load

[MichaelD]

Cripes; I don't know if this belongs in MOBOS, OPERATING SYSTEMS or SOFTWARE. But here it is. Help me out please.

I'm trying to get W2K loaded on my RAID 0 stripe on my AV35GTR. W2K setup asks for the RAID drivers on FLOPPY. I copied the W2K drivers from the "RAID" folder off the Shuttle CD that comes w/the board. I also copied the "OEM.TXT" file, after W2K gave me a "can't find OEM.txt" error message. No good. It keeps asking me to "insert HPT driver diskette in A".

So, I go to Shuttle's site. I DL the latest HPT drivers. IT's a .zip file. I unzip and put THE ENTIRE thing on a floppy. Still no good. I get a "windows cannot find any hard drives installed" message.

The two HD's are connected to the mobo and they show up in the Highpoint bios on bootup. Yes, I already created the array/stripe from within the Highpoint bios.

I"m at wit's end. Help if you can.


*EDIT*
Shuttle's site has a newer BIOS listed for this board, but they don't tell you what they changed...I get nervous about flashing BIOSes anyway. 🙁

*ANOTHER EDIT*
I got curious, so I went to the Abit KR7AR FAQ. The Abit and the Shuttle are essentially the same board. I saw this;


<< Due to limitations in the AWARD BIOS, the Highpoint controller and PCI-based SCSI cards do not always mix well. You are advised to either buy a KR7A and a SCSI card, or a KR7A-RAID and no SCSI. If you mix the two then you may have boot problems. >>



And it got me thinking. Ihave a Promise TX2 Ultra ATA 100 controller card that I use for my backup HD. The card is installed, but the drive isn't (the drive is busted and is being RMAd). Anyway, during bootup, the bios sees the card and just continues loading just fine. I DO NOT get any kind of error messages. I wonder if this card is causing the problem I listed above? I will remove and try again when I get home tonight. I'm still open for suggestions, though!

 

[MichaelD]

TTT

 

[MichaelD]

Cmon guys, I can't be the only one on the MOBOS forum this morning!

 

[Athlon4all]

Hmmm. Are you certaiin that the Driver was successfully loaded? There's no reason that if the driver is being loaded, that it wouldn't find the array. I would think though that if it was having trouble loading the driver, it would lock up. I'd try it again, and make sure that it says after you insert the floppy at the bottom "Setup is Loading Files (Highpoint RAID controller(something like that))". Also, in attempting to figure out if the driver is being loaded, try putting a single (non-RAID'ed) drive on the RAID controller and then see if Setup sees it. Good luck! LMK how it turns out

 

[MichaelD]

Hi Athlon4all, how'yadoin? I may be reaching here, but I think possibly my Promise PCI ATA100 card might (I stress "might") have something to do w/it. I will remove it before trying again.

If you remember correctly, W2K does ask for the "drivers floppy" twice. Once right after you hit "F6"at the beginning and then again after it formats the HD(s).

What it's doing is taking the floppy the first time, but then when the second time rolls around, it's not recognizing it. It keeps saying "insert the driver disc" it'll access/read the floppy, but then give the same message over and over.

It's gotta be operator error....gotta be...Ive done this a hundred times before and I'm not doing anything different now.

I can't try it w/just one driver hooked up to the HPT controller, since you have to create the array in the BIOS first before doing anything else.

I'll try again tonight. Thanks for the reply. 🙂