Computer won't post help!

[imported_Adonis]

The only other PATA drive i have is an old 12.7 gig quantum in my old computer, so using it as a boot drive is not an option. Not to mention I'd have to format it.

Getting another mobo is not an option, not only would that be admitting defeat, but there's no garauntee it would solve the problem, or generate new problems, ie. MSI neo2.

I already downloaded and ran that utility with the drive in SATA 1 - the two connectors directly next to the floppy connector. I thought it would work, but alas, did not. I'm not sure what you mean by PRI_SATA AND SEC_SATA. On my mobo I've got SATA 1 AND SATA 2. Underneath those are the SATA_RAID 1 AND SATA_RAID 2 connectors. I don't see any other SATA connectors ..

 

[mechBgon]

Ooops, I should've checked my plug naming I used the names for the K8V Deluxe / SE Deluxe. Yeah, the SATA_RAID ones connect to the Promise controller, so use one of those two.

Also, just to underline this point... the Promise controller can play the RAID game, or it can just host ATA drives standalone. There are two separate floppy-making utilities for it, one with "RAID" in its name and the other with "ATA" in its name, so make sure your driver floppy is the "ATA" one like I linked to. And if the board is like the K8V Deluxe, you may have to go into the mobo's BIOS and ensure that the Promise controller is, in fact, running the plain "IDE mode" and not RAID mode.

Good luck, you're getting close

 

[imported_Adonis]

I do in fact have the correct file from asus, there's an executable in it that creates a floppy disk to be used for this purpose. Before it worked, for some reason now it doesn't, it may have something to do with me either setting the promise controller to ide over raid (it was in raid before) or plugging the drive into the SATA_RAID 1.

Nothing seems to be working.

I wish there was a step by step guide somewhere for doing what I'm doing, with the mobo I have.

Sigh ..

edit: I've been doing pretty much what the asus website is telling me to do, here:

http://www.asus.com/support/fa...a.aspx?KB_ID=100087825

only with the promise controller set to raid over ide, and the hdd plugged into the SATA 1 connector.

Am i missing something in my bios? Some little option?

 

[mechBgon]

And you're absolutely sure the Makedisk.exe utility is the straight ATA/IDE type and not the RAID one? Because if you generated the driver floppy and it was working when the controller was in RAID mode, but does not work when the controller is in non-RAID mode, then that seems to indicate that the drivers on the floppy are the RAID drivers.