Help with Promise ULTRA TX2...

[soulpilot]

Hello everybody,

I am hoping that someone can offer some suggestions. I have an older system that I would like to slowly upgrade...for the time being I am stuck with this.

Ultra TX2 installation problems, seem to be related to memory resources conflict, with the video card (?) primarily.
No problem with IRQ.

System spec:

- Win98SE
- PII300
- Gigabyte 686LX motherboard (ATA33 on-board controller)
- BIOS rev. 2.4c supporting up to 40G drives
- PCI 2.1
- 192 MB SDRAM
- recently new Seagate 7200.7 40G ATA100 drive (has been running great on on-board IDE)
- 3COM 905-PTO network card
- ATI Rage Pro 8MB AGP video card
- Voodoo 2 PCI video card
- Soundblaster soundcard ISA (I know, don't laugh, does the job for what I need)

I wanted to utilize the ATA100 capability of the Seagate drive, by adding
the Promise Ultra TX2 controller.

- initial try per ULTRA TX2 instructions - system hanged after win boot menu (which I left enabled)
(*) could boot into 'SAFE' mode
- repeated using different PCI slots - same result
- removed NIC and Voodoo card
- repeated - same result

Connected drive back to on-board IDE controller, removed TX2
- prepared boot diskette with latest TX2 bios and drivers
- reinstalled TX2 and updated bios - OK
- booted OK, detected TX2, and installed drivers from diskette
- rebooted OK to desktop, except video problem - win reported video card conflict
- Device Manager (Resources) indicated memory conflict
- IRQ 'OK' on IRQ3

Details of memory conflict, as shown under 'Resources Tab'
- conflict with 'system board extension for PnP bios'
- conflict with 'ATI RAGE Pro video card'
- and Video card conflict with PnP bios (as above)

Tried to change memory settings i.e. unchecked 'Use automatic settings' under 'Resources Tab'
- would not allow change for video card or PnP bios
- allowed change for TX2 - changed to 'no conflict' regions
- this refreshed the ULTRA TX2 on the Device Manager to 'OK' status (i.e. no yellow exclamation marks)
- video card still showed conflict with 'PnP bios' at this point
- rebooted - hang up after win boot menu...

Removed TX2. Back to on-board IDE.

Any suggestions how to resolve this would be much appreciated.

Thank you.

sp

 

[SUOrangeman]

Using the latest drivers from the Promise website? My configuration is quite different, but I've had no problems with my U100TX2.

-SUO

 

[soulpilot]

Yes, latest bios and drivers that are available for the TX2 from Promise website, and the latest available bios for the mobo.

I will keep trying.

thx.

sp