Problem with Abit KT7a and SCSI boot drive

[b0red]

Currently the KT7a has a cpu, ram, fireport scsi card, video card, scsi HD and a floppy drive. The problem is that I can't boot with my SCSI HD(ID 0). Basically the mobo posts, then the scsi card scans for scsi devices(it detects the HD), then it says "Press any key to reboot". Everything was working before on my MSI K7Tpro2a. I just changed the mobo today, well, 2 hours ago to KT7a. Can anyone help? Thanks.

 

[Pederv]

Did you put the SCSI in the boot sequence? I think it's in the advanced chipset option of the bios.

 

[b0red]

1st boot: floppy
2nd boot: SCSI
3rd boot: SCSI

bah...headache

 

[Pederv]

Have you tried this?

 

[Radboy]

great faq's.

 

[WebDude]

There is a KNOWN problem with KT7a (not sure about KT7) motherboards and scsi controllers. You have to go into the scsi bios, not the mb bios, and disable the "boot from CD-ROM" feature of the scsi card. (On Adaptec cards a 'ctrl a' during boot up gets you into the card's bios). Of course you have to do all the other things right too, like enable the boot from scsi in the motherboard bios, blah, blah, blah. Then you should be able to boot from your bootable scsi hd. More info can be found at the AMDmb forums.