KT7 Problem

[DeadSeaSquirrels]

I know, the motherboard is old, but that is what I have right now. I am trying to put together a 600Mhz mobo, and the message I get at the beginning after the POST is basically "please have a bootable disk drive."

So basically it doesn't recognize my disk drives for some reason. I went into the BIOS and it recognized my disk drives when I set it to auto-detect. But when I boot up, and there is a list of IDE devices that show up, it says none where my disk drives should be located. My bios is UL right now, which I think is new enough to not have all the little bugs. Does anybody have any idea what is wrong? I know the hardware works, because every single piece of hardware came from an existing KT7 (600Mhz) board...Please please please.

 

[Chubbbs]

If it's not a hardware problem with the hard drives, then it must be a problem with the BIOS. BIOS's have been known to become corrupted. Try flashing your BIOS with the newest available version (Abit comes out with new KT7 series drivers every couple of weeks), and if that doesn't work, try getting a replacement BIOS chip and/or motherboard from Abit, assuming it's still under warrantee. First retry the hard drive in another, working machine to completely eliminate it as a potential problem. Good luck!

 

[ZAQ3211]

dss

In Bios under PNP/PCI Config. Setup Menu

Did you under Reset Configuration Data - Set to ENABLE?

ZAQ3211

Also, Here is link to Paul's FAQ which Abit highly recommends.

http://www.viahardware.com/faq/kt7/kt7faq.htm

Try switching to another IDE.

 

[DeadSeaSquirrels]

 

[DeadSeaSquirrels]

Sorry about that...

Thanks for the info. I was positive it wasn't the hard drives because I basically have two KT7 boards...one that is setup and running with the hard drives in question...I thought by using all the old hardware that I am using right now would eliminate the possibility of those hardware failure.

I flashed the bios with the new bios updates. I wasn't sure if getting a 98SE bootdisk would work, since my drives are formatted NTFS...it gave me some trouble, but it went through the boot. After flashing everything looks relatively fine...just some fine tuning now. I guess I was worried about flashing before I even did it because I thought most of the major compatibility issues were solved with bios' pre-"UL" version, but maybe it was everything "UL" and prior.

Thanks for all the help...on to my 1.4Ghz machine...only 18 months behind the pack.

 

[ZAQ3211]

DSS

Glad you got that worked out.

I would Bookmark that Paul's FAQ it is Very good.

ZAQ3211

 

[Pederv]

Was this the RAID version or just the straight KT7? The reason I ask is because the RAID version went thru a bios change for the RAID controller. The new controller bios wasn't supposed to read RAID0 arrays the same as the old bios, which would explain, oops for get it.