I upgraded my CPU, Motherboard and Ram.
Got a P4 2.4C GHz CPU, the ASUS P4C800E-Deluxe board and 2 PC3200/DDR400 512M memory sticks (total 1G).
I have 1 floppy, 2 CDroms and 1 HDD (Quantum Fireball - 30M, 7200).
In the BIOS set up, it recognizes my HDD as the Primary Master and the CDRoms as the Secondary Master & Slave. With the HDD connected to the blue port (primary) and the CDroms connected to the black port (secondary).
The problem occurs when I boot up. When it gets to the part where it is loading up the FastTrack portion and is scanning the IDE drives, I get the following error:
"No device is attached to the FastTrack controller, The BIOS is not installed".
Then it says
"Reboot & select a proper boot device or insert boot media.."
It seems that it does not recognize my HDD as a bootable device. The BIOS settings were all at default settings. I also changed the "Onboard IDE operate mode" to "Compatible" so that I could set it to P-ATA Ports only but that did not work either. But since I have Windows XP, it should stay at Enhanced which does not work.
I went in to the BIOS and Disabled the "Onboard Promise Controller" as I do not need RAID.
I no longer get the 1st error about the device attached to the FastTrack controller but I still get the Reboot and Select a Boot Device or insert Boot Media...
I guess it doesn't like my HD. Not sure where to go from here.
Since I do not have S-ATA or RAID, I'm unfamiliar with the settings that I require to get my Hardrive working. I would imagine that the HDD I have is considered to be a P-ATA (UltraDMA) - but I do not know the difference. The HDD I have is about 2 yrs old and I think the S-ATA's are newer - so I do not have a S-ATA.
Could someone please let me know what settings are required for me to use so that I can boot up the system.
Regards,
Matthew Batterton
Got a P4 2.4C GHz CPU, the ASUS P4C800E-Deluxe board and 2 PC3200/DDR400 512M memory sticks (total 1G).
I have 1 floppy, 2 CDroms and 1 HDD (Quantum Fireball - 30M, 7200).
In the BIOS set up, it recognizes my HDD as the Primary Master and the CDRoms as the Secondary Master & Slave. With the HDD connected to the blue port (primary) and the CDroms connected to the black port (secondary).
The problem occurs when I boot up. When it gets to the part where it is loading up the FastTrack portion and is scanning the IDE drives, I get the following error:
"No device is attached to the FastTrack controller, The BIOS is not installed".
Then it says
"Reboot & select a proper boot device or insert boot media.."
It seems that it does not recognize my HDD as a bootable device. The BIOS settings were all at default settings. I also changed the "Onboard IDE operate mode" to "Compatible" so that I could set it to P-ATA Ports only but that did not work either. But since I have Windows XP, it should stay at Enhanced which does not work.
I went in to the BIOS and Disabled the "Onboard Promise Controller" as I do not need RAID.
I no longer get the 1st error about the device attached to the FastTrack controller but I still get the Reboot and Select a Boot Device or insert Boot Media...
I guess it doesn't like my HD. Not sure where to go from here.
Since I do not have S-ATA or RAID, I'm unfamiliar with the settings that I require to get my Hardrive working. I would imagine that the HDD I have is considered to be a P-ATA (UltraDMA) - but I do not know the difference. The HDD I have is about 2 yrs old and I think the S-ATA's are newer - so I do not have a S-ATA.
Could someone please let me know what settings are required for me to use so that I can boot up the system.
Regards,
Matthew Batterton
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