OH MY GOD! Please Help!

[JackDaniels]

I just replaced an Abit BX6-2 with an Abit BF6. After swapping in the Promise ATA/66 controller (that worked fine with the BX6-2) into the BF6, Windows refused to finish booting. The OS exists on a second HD residing on IED-1, not the controller card.

So then I installed the controller card without the HD attached to it and started the system. Win98SE booted this time and promted me to load the driver for the controller card.

When I did, it said that the driver I was installing was older than what was on the system. This is strange because the driver was fine before and this was a fresh install of Win98 SE.

To make a long story short, the system is not accepting any driver (i.e. new or old) and the Device Manager recognizes the Promise controller, but won't accept the driver I have or the one that Win98 is supplying to it.

Any input is greatly appreciated.

Thank You.

Jack

 

[warlord]

did you format the drive or did you just reinstall SE? if you just reinstalled it, it may have found the old driver.

good luck

 

[Ladi]

Have you tried removing the hardware from device manager, then rebooting and attempting to reinstall that way?

~Ladi

 

[eddie]

Yeh, check and see if it is listed in device manager, remove it, reboot and reinstall drivers.

 

[JackDaniels]

Thanks for you guys' input. As soon as pulled my head out of my butt, I realized to check the Promise web site for issues such as mine. Sure enough it was there and it was a pretty easy fix.

thanks
jd