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Computer does not boot with new IDE controller

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tweakmm

Lifer
So I got a new IDE controler for my new 300gb hard disk as I'm setting up a fileserver and the IDE controler onboard is too old for the new disk.
Whenever it boots up it stops right afer the IDE scan. It reconigzes the drive but immediately afterwards the screen goes blank with nothing more than a blinking cursor.
If I try to boot from the CD drive it also hangs after the "Loading CD-ROM" screen.

What is odd is that if I have no drives attached to the controler it boots fine, I was even able to install the mass storage drivers in Windows.

I have tried different hard drives to no avail. I know the disk is fine because I can attach it to an external enclosure and it is recognized fine.

The hardware in question is a 300gb Seagate Barracuda, a CompUSA ATA-133 IDE PCI controller and an old Dell something-or-other with a 200mhz Pentium Pro processor.

Any help is much appreciated.

Cheers🙂
Michael
 
Do you have the drive jumpered for MASTER and not Cable Select? Is said drive attached to the Master connector on the IDE cable? The fact that the PC will boot without the HD attached points to a prob on/with the HD.
 
Originally posted by: MichaelD
Hmm...tried diff PCI slot for card? Is HD OK? Can the manuf's HD checking utitility see the drive?
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I'll try a different slot in a second. Would it make sense if the slot was bad if Windows recognizes the card and will install drivers for it?

But here's the thing about the second question. When I try to boot off the CD I get the message "booting off cd" or whatever and then it hangs.
 
Originally posted by: tweakmm
Just to clarify the card will not boot with any disks attached, not even with the original boot disk.
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Well, gee; that makes me wonder. Now it sounds like the card. 😕

With all that freezing up and such, it sounds like a IRQ problem. Freezing, especially on boot, it always hardware related.
 
Have you tried clearing the CMOS, loading defaults and going from there?

Older MB with old settings + Newer PCI card = sometimes probs.
 
go into bios and set boot device to SCSI?, I now its not a SCSI card but thats how it works on some boards
 
Originally posted by: tweakmm
So I got a new IDE controler for my new 300gb hard disk as I'm setting up a fileserver and the IDE controler onboard is too old for the new disk.
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Aham ... why do you think the mobo controller is too old ?

What mobo are you using ?

You should ALWAYS use the simplest solutions for servers : system boot drive from a simple, chipset-integrated, controller and the rest of the HDDs in some RAID config if you desire a high speed hwen serving data towards the network requests .

 
Originally posted by: East17
Originally posted by: tweakmm
So I got a new IDE controler for my new 300gb hard disk as I'm setting up a fileserver and the IDE controler onboard is too old for the new disk.
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Aham ... why do you think the mobo controller is too old ?
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It's a Pentium Pro 200mhz chip. :laugh:
What mobo are you using ?
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Whatever Dell uses in the XPS 200n Pro

 
Originally posted by: tweakmm
It's a Pentium Pro 200mhz chip. :laugh:
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Ugh ... then don't but the 300GB HDD ... buy a 160GB one and some parts to build at least a Duron 600Mhz with all on-board .

 
Partition the disk into as many 10GB partitions as it requires, and I'm willing to bet that it will boot. You could try 20GB, but it might not work. I think that was too large for equipment back then.
 
Originally posted by: myocardia
Partition the disk into as many 10GB partitions as it requires, and I'm willing to bet that it will boot. You could try 20GB, but it might not work. I think that was too large for equipment back then.
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But the IDE card is quite modern.

It won't boot with a single 1gb drive attached.
 
Are you overloading the PSU in that old Dell?

Try unplugging the CDROM or anything else to boot.
 
Originally posted by: KGBMAN
Are you overloading the PSU in that old Dell?

Try unplugging the CDROM or anything else to boot.
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Good idea, I had thought of that last night.
To no avail. 🙁

I'm just going to say screw it. I'll just stick it in an external enclosure.

Thanks for all the help guys.
🙂
 
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