Promise Ultra 100 problem

[tommyc]

Just powered everything down so I could take out my cards to move
my mobo outta the way temporarily. I just needed to get at 1 lousy screw to remove the feet on my tower an replace em with wheels.
Put everything back exactly as it was ( same slots etc.) Now get message "can not find pci device-pdc20266 Ultra 100 bios not installed".
What happened ?!:disgust:

 

[tommyc]

OK Fine ! I got it to work by shuffling cards in the PCI slots.
If everything was powered down before I did anything why did I have to
move stuff around to get it working ??????

 

[culex]

ESCD works in strange ways.

Even though the cards are back in place, sometimes the machine has some kind of trouble with it; whether it be detecting it or having conflicts.

Thats why every time I take out a few PCI cards and put them back in, I boot it back up, go into the BIOS and reset the ESCD (Usually under PCI/PnP menu). That seems to clear up things most of the time.

 

[tommyc]

Thanks Culex.