problems booting with promise ultra66, help please

[JJHendrix]

hi all,
I've got a promise ultra66 card on an abit bx6 rev. 2. I just got a great new hard drive, my fifth device, so i have to start using my ultra66 card. I've been having trouble successfully booting up with any devices (hard drive or cd drive) attached to it though. I'm also running XP. When there's nothing on the ultra66 card, but it's plugged in, everything works fine - and windows detects it and found drivers for it without any problems. But as soon as I attach a drive to the card, my computer snags just before the windows splash screen - it's not the cards problem though - because the card will recognize the device...It's right after that, when the OS starts loading. I don't have any experience with these cards, so i'm not sure what the problem could be, any ideas?
thanks,
JJHendrix

 

[DanStp]

I will try to help you some. Did you load the drivers for the card on the Harddrive your trying to boot from? Put your boot drive on your regular IDE port and load the drivers for XP, then after you boot move the drive to the Promise card and try it there. Good luck

 

[bacillus]

is your boot hdd on the promise controller when problems start happening?
if so, do you have scsi to boot before ide in bios?
also try updating the bios of the promise card.

 

[Mday]

this is a common problem, but the fixes vary from how you want your system to behave. the common problem is not being able to boot once installing such a card with NT derived windows operating systems.

without further information, there is nothing specific i can tell you. but you will find a lot of information on promise's site as well as a quick search in google, as well as the archives of the forums.

 

[JJHendrix]

Thanks for the replies. I've been having problems even though i'm booting without the boot drive attached to the drive. I tried simply attaching my spare hard drives and then my cd-rw drive. Nothing worked. I'll try updating the bios of the promise card, although i'm pretty sure i already did that at one point when i was messing around with this stuff awhile ago.

 

[exm]

I have the same problem with a similar Abit mobo (Highpoint controller): my (only) solution has been simply to connect the harddisk (WD40BB) to the internal UDMA33-controllers instead of the UDMA66. I really wonder if there would be any noticeable performance differences anyway.

It's about time for a new system anyway...

 

[samgau]

I had a simolar problem.... and what it boiled down to was that XP had at detected the card as a previous version of the same card but not the current... mine was version 2 and the card it detected was the original version... so all I had to do was manually load the correct drivers and voila.... I was suprised that that happened in XP.... anyway hope that helps...

 

[Budman]

Try flashing the latest bios on your Ultra66 card & use the latest drivers,both available from http://www.promise.com