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Installing NT4.0 on ABIT BP6

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vasunt

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I bought a system with ABIT BP6 (dual Celeron) and am having problems intalling NT4.0 from CD or floppies.

System came with HDD attached to IDE3 (Ultra ATA/66 or UDMA) with Ultra ATA/66 cable as master and CD-ROM attached to IDE1 (ATA/33) with IDE cable also as master. Both are UDMA capable. I have lastest BIOS (BP6_RU) and NT drivers (HighPoint Technology - 1251.exe) for motherboard.

When installing NT, I boot from CD-ROM and while NT setup picks up the HighPoint driver (specifying additional mass storage) it refuses to recognize the HDD and aborts the setup.

I suspect that the HW is not connected correctly. Can I do any of the following -

1. Connect HDD to IDE3 (UDMA) and CD-ROM to IDE4 (also UDMA) using 2 Ultra ATA/66 cables both as master, or

2. Connect HDD to IDE1 (IDE) and CD-ROM to IDE2 (also IDE) with 2 IDE cables both as master - obviously not preferred

How should I proceed further? Greatly appreciate any help.
 
Install NT4 while your HD is on the ata33 controller,

then after all is installed install the highpoint ata66 drivers, then shutdown & swap back your hd to ata66.

This is what i had to do when i had a bp6 before.
 
I would not use the the hotpoint controller has there are issues with it. Your second option is your best bet. That will work just fine for you
 
You must hit F6 at the very beginning of loading the NT setup and specify controller drivers then, not later. Regardless, buy a promise add on controller and don't use the highpoint controller. The highpoint controller has been a source of countless problems for many BP6 users.
 
Just use the ATA33 as your primary Harddrive channel and use the High Point for other things. ATA66 is overrated anyhow.
 
1. Make sure you have the latest BIOS driver for your BP6 because it solved the HighPoint controller problem.

2. Make sure you have a device on IDE 1 (Primary). If you don't, it won't go beyond IDE 1 and that is why you hang up. You could put a CD device there.

3. Make sure your HighPoint controller driver match the motherboard's BIOS version.

4. Right away, press F6 and load the HighPoint Controller driver twice (Don't ask, it just works 😉)

Trust me, it does work.

My system:

Abit BP6
(2) 400mhz celeron o/c 545mhz
256MB PC-100
15GB Fujitsu HD (UDMA 4) IDE 3
42x CD (UDMA 3) IDE 1
Internal Zip IDE 2

Oh, by the way...ATA/66 is NOT overrated. 😉
I know.

nEo
 
I (like Neo) have not had a problem with the Highpoint ATA 66 controllers on my BP6 (or my soyo ba+iv). Budman has the right idea for the most reliable way to install NT (or for that matter Win2k), first use the ata 33 controller, install the ata 66 drivers, switch channels and reboot connected to the ata 66 controller.
 
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