Boot File.. Start up with XP Pro

[Pinger]

I have been having a problem with my system warm booting.. It doesn't see my
ultra66 bios, then on the second try it always finds them.. In my boot file
which I found in Recovery/Settings I see it has a (1) listed after partition.. my 25gig IBM Deskstar is not partitioned so why is it showing a partition.. I'm wondering if this is the culprit? I am running XP Pro.. It this file correct?? If not what is the correct way of fixing it?? Below is a copy of what is in my Boot file.. It is in Control Panel/System/Advanced/Settings/Edit..

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect

 

[bsobel]

The arc listing for partitions are 1 based, this isn't related (I'm afraid) to your warm booting problem. Do you have the latest bios on the ultra66 card? I had a machine with a similar condition (some boots it just wouldn't see the promise board). Happened regardless of OS, seemed to be an interaction between the Compaq bios on that box and the promise bios.

SBill

 

[Pinger]

Actually I am running the original bios for my promise ultra66, never upgraded them since I bought this Dell PC 2 years ago.. I have updated my MB bios twice and have the most recent ones there but have no idea how to update the ones on my promise card... I went to Promise's site but the instructions on doing it kinda baffled me.. so I never attempted it.. plus the newest bios for a ultra 66 are from 6/1/2000 although the drivers are from 8/7/2001.. think I should update both or has XP loaded the newest drivers available??

 

[bsobel]

Im no longer running that card, so I'm not sure which version promise is providing vs Microsoft. Since MS is probably shipping the signed promise code you can go to device manager select the card and bring up the driver details, it should show you a version number somewhere in there. Hopefully you can compare that against what promise has posted to determine which is newer.

Bill

 

[bacillus]

I would suggest you update you bios which you must do in dos. since you're using XP/Win2k then either get a bootable floppy from a win98 pc using the command format A:/s in ms dos prompt or download one from bootdisk.com.
download the latest bios from promise.
copy PTIFLASH.EXE & ULBIOS.BIN to the floppy. boot the pc with the floppy & at the A: prompt type PTIFLASH & the menu will pop up. suggest you back up your present bios before updating!