Please Help! - ASUS CUSL2 & SCSI will not boot

[Robor]

System: ASUS CUSL2, Celeron 366, 256MB, Radeon 64MB (not using onboard video), Adaptec 2940UW, 9GB UW SCSI (boot), 4GB UW SCSI (storage), 45GB ATA-100 (storage), Plextor W SCSI CDROM, etc.

Symptoms: System POST's fine. CPU is recognized (not overclocking), RAM is counted, SCSI card is detected and devices are scanned, SCSI BIOS loads successfully, and instead of getting "Starting Windows 98" I get a blank screen.

My Adaptec card is ID7, my boot HD is ID6, my CDROM is ID3, and my other HD is ID0. I've got the motherboard BIOS set to boot from a SCSI device and my Adaptec card is set to boot from device ID6. I booted with a Win98 startup disk and this resulted in my IDE drive being drive C: and my 9GB SCSI being drive D:. I did a "sys a: d:" but that didn't work either.

Almost forgot... All of this hardware was removed from a working system. I just moved it from my BE6-2 to this new CUSL2 and now it will not boot. The CUSL2 was running with the C366 and an IDE HD and worked fine. Am I missing something? I've been troubleshooting this thing for hours! PLEASE Help!

Rob

 

[Vegito]

Weird, which slot are you using for the Adaptec.

I have 2940U2W & 2930U2 on my CUSL2, both works fine. What BIOS are you using and what other cards is in the system

 

[divide by zero]

Is your new powers supply at least as large as your old one?

 

[JHutch]

Sounds like your new system is recognizing the IDE drive as the first in line and trying to boot off it (and not seeing any boot code). Double check BIOS settings to make sure it tries to boot from the SCSI drive and not the IDE drive...

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

JHutch

 

[Hellburner]

It would be best to do a reinstall of the OS, I've done that type of thing before and unless it's identical hardware you'll run into various driver/resource problems.

 

[Hellburner]

A quick check, because of the hardware change the file system might be running in MS-DOS compatibility mode, might cause problems with SCSI???

 

[NT4Mike]

Have you tried changing your boot drive to ID0 and the storage drive to ID1 and then set the SCSI card to boot to ID0. I would take the ATA drive out of the system for now until you get it booting again.

-Mike

 

[Robor]

Here's my card info:

AGP port: Radeon 64MB
PCI #1: Open
PCI #2: Adaptec 2940 UW
PCI #3: SMC NIC
PCI #4: Soundblaster Live! Platinum
PCI #5: Open
PCI #6: Open

I'm not sure of the BIOS verions. The motherboard is what it shipped with and the Adaptec isn't too old.

I swapped the power supply from the other case so it's the same. I've verified the boot sequence in the BIOS even to the point of disabling all options but SCSI and moved it to the top of the list. Still no go.

Thanks for any help/advice!

Rob

 

[Robor]

Thanks for all the replies guys! I didn't see them until the above post.

My thoughts last night (until it got to be 12:45AM) were to flash the BIOS on the MB and SCSI card and try the boot SCSI HD to ID#0. The weird thing is this SCSI setup booted fine in a BE6-2 only an hour earlier. I think I will try all of your suggestions...

How's this sound?

1. Remove IDE HD
2. Flash MB
3. Flash SCSI card
4. Reassign SCSI ID on boot HD to #0
5. Reinstall Win98

Rob

 

[micron]

I think I heard somewhere that the boot drive has to be ID0.

 

[AndyHui]

If you can't seem to boot from your SCSI devices, you might try to access the BIOS boot menu.

Hit ESC as soon as all IDE devices and SCSI devices have shown up on the POST screen. This will bring up a special BIOS menu that will allow you to select which device to boot from.

This feature seems to be exclusive to the CUSL2. Only sometimes works on the P3V4X and A7V with the latest BIOS...

 

[Radboy]

Have heard of probs with ppl trying top boot from HDD set to anything but SCSI ID 0.
Have CUSL2 + Tekram DC390-U2W + IBM Ultrstar - no probs.

What about your MBR - what's up with that?

 

[Tetsuo316]

make sure you have latest scsi drivers as well as latest bios. triple check the bios to make sure you have check for scsi enabled in the bios.

 

[Robor]

Well, I'm back up and running. Guess what it was... My dumba$$ ran a trojan. I booted with a Startup Disk and examined my HD. Found my Windows directory dated 00-00-84 and the contents were totally nuked. The HD's volume label had been changed to "ICUII ICU". There were also 2 more directories named "s" and "y". Seems when I ran a crack/keygen a few weeks ago for the program ICUII (which didn't work anyway) it had a little hidden payload. OOPS! :Q

Oh well, they got me. This is the first time I've been hit that hard. I wanted to format and reinstall Win98SE anyway! Yeah, that's it!

Thanks everyone for helping this dumba$$!!

Rob