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No IDE's after BIOS Flash...Help!!

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SkyDiver

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Hi All,
Hope you can help me with this! I have an Abit KT7-Raid. Just flashed by BIOS to 7N, the latest official release, because I plan to upgrade to a 1.4 Ghz T-bird. Everything went fine, except that now when I boot up, I don't have any IDE's in Win98SE.

The BIOS recognizes my IDE's, but Win98 does not. I suspect it is some option in the BIOS. I haven't done a BIOS flash in some time. I stupidly thought it would retain my settings, yet when Win98SE boots up after the flash, it needs drivers for all my VIA stuff.

Here is my configuration:
Raid/ATA100 Controller: IDE1 Master = Boot disk, IBM 75GXP 30GB, IDE1 Slave=Empty. IDE2 Master = IBM 75GXP 15GB, IDE2 Slave=Empty
IDE Channels: IDE1 Master = Pioneer DVD-Rom, IDE1 Slave = LS-120 (Superdisk),
IDE2 Master = Plextor 12/10/32A, IDE2 Slave = Sony SuperStation Tape Drive.

If anyone has anyone has an idea on this, I'd really appreciate hearing from you. I've been trying to figure it out for hour and hours!

Thanks.
 
I'm surprised you had to reload drivers .. You are saying that devices on your ide/raid controllers are fine, but the ones on the Northbridges IDE controllers are not recognized by Win98? Are there any conflicts in device managers? You could try to flash to the old bios and see if that fixes anything if you can't get anything to work ..
-neural
 
Yes, I was surprised too. Also, I didn't mention that I had tried to install the latest VIA 4-in1 drivers when it asked me to install drivers and it gave me a registry error. This is mentioned in the Abit KT7 FAQ, but not because of a BIOS update.

Here is the latest: I uninstalled ACPI and everything went nuts...standard VGA controller, 16-colors, Win98 (not VIA) IDE drivers, etc. However! I got my IDE channels back! So then, I switched back to ACPI and now they are gone again!

All this from a BIOS change?
 
this is a shot in the dark, but give it a whirl 🙂 i am not sure about abit, but some other mobo mfg's say that after u flash ur bios... u should go into the cmos and set everything to default. have u tried that?
 
Thanks for the help guys. Spanky, I was getting ready to do that, but did something else that fixed it. Here it is: Remember that it was only my IDE stuff that wasn't working, and that the VIA 4-in-1 install kept crashing, so I couldn't re-install them.

I changed my IDE driver in Control Panel to the MS Win98SE version. (Once I did this, it gave me a BSOD because my SuperDisk was running in Dos-Compatibility mode.) When I re-booted, the VIA 4-in-1 v437a installed just fine over the MS drivers.

When I re-booted, everything worked. Yeee-ha!

Thanks again for the help.
 
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