Motherboard and BIOS issue for P4C800 Deluxe

[Koziskers]

I recently constructed my own computer and even though I am still a noob, amazingly it worked! However, there are still some bugs. I used an Asus P4C800 Deluxe motherboard. When I start up my computer, I'm given the following message: "No drive attached to the FastTrak controller. The BIOS is not installed." I'll admit that I was a little unfamiliar with what the term "BIOS" meant, but as I have read up on it, it appears that this is a problem. Like I said, the computer works, but it's bugged (it has problems recognizing my mouse and keyboard, it will lock up a lot on some programs, etc.) and a lot of these bugs seems like they could be attributed to this. I have been scouring the motherboard manual, but I can't find anything about the "FastTrak controller". Does anybody know what this is, what I am doing wrong, and how to fix it? Thanks.

 

[egale]

Are you using raid? If not , you can disable this in the bios. Also, are you overclocking? What is your memory? Go into the bios and increase memory voltage vdimm to 2.75.

 

[bacillus]

it's the promise raid controller & when no hdds are attached you get the BIOS is not installed message.
it's not a "problem" as it's meant to work that way.

 

[Crashman]

They're right, the board comes with 2 BIOS files, one for the chipset/features and another for the Promise controller. You see, the Promise chip is a PCI device just like an add in card would be, and the second BIOS is needed for it to detect drives and force boot from those drives. So if you're not using the Promise controller, turn it off in the motherboard's BIOS.

I bet you're wondering how an onboard device could be PCI! Well, they just put it on a PCI bus directly instead of using a slot.