Installing NT4.0 with BP6 motherboard

[vasunt]

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.

How should I proceed further? Greatly appreciate any help.

 

[IsOs]

The easiest thing to do is connect the harddrive as master to IDE 1 and the CD to IDE 2. Install NT4. When you're up and running, make sure to install the Highpoint ATA66 driver in the SCSI section. Afterwards, reconnect the harddrive back to IDE3 and make sure that BIOS is set to boot from Harddrive.

The ATA/66 driver is treated as SCSI driver, so if you really wish to install NT4 with your harddrive in IDE 3, press F6 on the first screen that allows you to install MASS STORAGE device drivers.