P3V4X and Promise Ultra 66 - incompatible?

Mythman

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System configuration:
Intel P3-733
Asus P3V4X - BIOS ver 1005
384mb pc100 ram
ISA SB Awe 64
Diamond Ultra 770 TNT2
Diamond Monster II
Adaptec 2940 SCSI Controller
Promise Ultra 66
Atapi Internal Zip Drive
Pioneer 10X DVD Drive
Syquest Sparq tape drive
NEC Floppy
Plextor SCSI CD-ROM
TWO SCSI 9 gig drives (forgot brand)
One IBM 2 GIG drive (ata33) (Boot drive)
Two Maxtor ATA66 drives
One Quantum Fireball ATA66 drive

As you can see I NEED to have the ability to have more than 4 IDE devices hooked up.

When I try to boot the machine it will reach the ESCD message and stop. If I remove the Promise Ultra 66 card, it will boot. I have a couple of these cards and have tried replacing the card. Same problem. If I disconnect the two maxtors and the quantum drive, it still will refuse to boot. So the problem seems to be with the card and the Asus motherboard.

I searched the forums and have found no references to this problem. The PC will boot if I hook up only the four IDE drives to the IDE controller on the motherboard.

I have tried changing numerous settings in the BIOS to no avail.

Any ideas?
 

FieldTek

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I am using a Promise Ultra 66 with the P3V4X with no problems at all. I have one 13GB drive hooked to the Promise, and two Maxtor 20.5GB drives and a HP9110i and ASUS 40X CDROM on my motherboard. Also running a Diamond MX300, Generic 10/100 LAN card, USR 56K FaxModem(NON-WINMODEM!), a CL GeForce 2, ATI TV Wonder Capture card, oh...and a PIII 550E FCPGA at 770 with 256MB ram running at full bus speed.

My bios version is 1004

What setting have you tried in the bios?

You might try to see if it is trying to address the Promise drive as the boot drive in the bios.

I know Win98SE treats the Promise controller as a SCSI device so you might see if there is a conflict between your Adaptec controller and the Promise and try changing the SCSI ID for either the Adaptec or the Promise.