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Poll: Abit VP6 and Adaptec 39160 Ultra 160 SCSI

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Razorbac

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I just upgraded to the vp6 on my system and I am very happy with it except the SCSI bios will not install and I am unable to boot from the Hard disk. I am able to boot from my LS120 and access the drives on the SCSI bus. I have the UR revision of the Abit bios and Adaptec 39160 SCSI bios version 2.57.2. Is this due to the high point controller? is there a patch or a bios update available to fix this, or am I the first to experience this issue?I also installed an older SCSI card to make sure it was not a bad card(adaptec 2940UW) the bios would not load on that card when i had a hdd plugged in either. would not say no bios installed but didn't day it was either. gave no message once the bus had been scanned.

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Here's a couple things to check. I just went around with the 29160N which is very similar.

If you can get into the SCSI bios DISABLE the Boot From CD-ROM option.

The symptoms I saw was I was not able to boot the SCSI hard drive unless I had a bootable 2000 CD in the SCSI drive. Very wierd but I have read at www.hardocp.com that this board has a bug in it that makes Adaptec 29 or 39 cards unable to boot from the CD-ROM. I thought, wll, I'm not botting from CD-ROM so it doesn't matter. Well apparently it has a problem booting anything unless you disable that feature. Abit has admitted there is a problem and will have a fix in one of it's 2 next bios releases.

I hope this helps you some.

Later,
Curt
 
Not being familiar with this board please excuse if this is wrong, but seeing you have a Highpoint controller that means you are selecting boot to SCSI? If so remember that the board will boot to the highest priority SCSI controller, which by the nature of the board will first seek the Highpoint controller. Make sure you dont have a boot drive enabled there. Then if you are getting the bios banner for the 39160 hit control A to enter the bios..the "display hit control A at startup" selection may be disabled, but will work none the less. When in the bios select the boot drive and enable to use bios on boot. As previosly mentioned disable boot to CDrom.. so on bootup your highpoint will be detected first for boot drives, then the 39160, and all should work from there. If your zip is running from the highpoint dont use it as a bootable disk. Hope this helps you out.. 🙂
 
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