Question about Asus A7V's ATA100

[IcemanJer]

How come I can't use those 2 ATA100 IDE channels as my boot device?

This is my setup:
ATA66 primary master - Maxtor 20GB 7200rpm (ATA100 @ UDMA 4)
ATA66 primary slave - Maxtor 40GB 7200rpm (ATA100 @ UDMA 4)
ATA66 secondary master - Plextor 12/10/32 (PIO 4, I think)
ATA66 secondary slave - Samsung 12x DVD (UDMA 2)
ATA100 primary & secondary master/slave are all empty.

I want to try just using the ATA100 IDE channels, but when I switched the HDDs from ATA66 to ATA100, I get an "Invalid System Disk Error" -> and I presume it's because it can't find a bootable device on ATA66's primary master.

 

[IcemanJer]

bump. Anyone?

 

[Mamapajama]

IceMAN... I'm having the EXACT same problems.. I posted this a while ago but didn't get any solutions. Someone told me to try disabling the BIOS Virus detector so I did, but then it kept asking me for "type the name of the Command Interpreter." I tried to boot up with floppy disks and everything, and it says the same thing.. ANyone!!?!?

 

[smp]

My A7V has a feature in the bios that lets you disable the ata100 channel, check that and see if it's set on or off. Also, don't you have to install drivers for the ata100 controller under windows?

 

[Darksamie]

I have seen these problems before as I have the same motherboard. This is what I did....

1. Upgrade to the latest BIOS revision 1004
2. Make sure that the operating system I have installed has the Promise ATA100 drivers installed
3. After they are installed, reboot the system
4. Turn off the system and change the HDDs across to the ATA100 controller (Not the CDROMs)
5. Boot up and it should all be ok

 

[Mamapajama]

I've tried installing all of the ata100 drivers but I still have the same problems.

 

[IcemanJer]

I've flashed my BIOS to the latest version available from Asus, the 1007, installed the Promise ATA100 driver from Windows, shutdown, switch over, and still no avail.. weird..

 

[sandorski]

Did you change the BIOS to boot from the Promise controller? I believe the setting to choose for boot device is "SCSI/ATA device", something like that.

 

[Toonster]

I'm using the A7V and have my drives hooked to the ATA100 channels and everything is working fine. Never had any problems. As has been said previously, install the Promise drivers, set your boot setting to SCSI/ATA, and enable the onboard ATA device first setting in the BIOS. That should get you up and running.