SATA Card problem

[Gotham33]

Okay so I thought I had a K7V motherboard, but I have an Asus A7V motherbaord. Anyway, As I said before this is what my system has:

AMD 1ghz CPU
Asus A7V
768 RAM
Adaptec SCSI Card
Firewire Card
Ethernet Card
Video Card
Sound Card

And now I want to add this Promise Card. At one point it said "PCI Card in Slot 2 Share IRQ with Promise IDE Controller"

So Slot 2 doesn't seem to work even though I'm booting from SCSI which is in Slot 3 so I don't see the issue here. I updated the BIOS. Maybe I should update firmware for the SATA Card or something? Or do you guys think another slot will work?

this is from another post i made:

okay i tried 2 different ways just now:

sata card in Slot 2 with SCSI in slot 3

there's a shared IRQ with the onboard Promise Controller on the motherboard. It will stay on a black screen before the Windows XP screen is supposed to show off so basically a freeze

with SCSI in Slot 2 and sata in slot 3 it was saying insert boot disk before the XP screen is supposed to show up.

So does that mean I can't put anythin in slot 2 because of the stupid onboard Promise controller? that seems dumb.

Slot 1 has the soundcard. IRQ is shared with AGP Slot
Slot 2 is empty and shares IRQ with the ATA100 Promise controller
Slot 3 has the SCSI card and shares with onboard audio/amr
Slot 4 has Firewire card and shares with Slot 5 and onboard USB controller
Slot 5 has Ethernet card and shares with Slot 4 and onboard USB controller

Any ideas what I should try? In the Bios all the Slot IRQs are set to Auto

 

[Gotham33]

bump

 

[SUOrangeman]

Are you making use of the onboard Promise controller? If not, I would *think* you could disable it in BIOS.

-SUO

 

[Gotham33]

Originally posted by: SUOrangeman
Are you making use of the onboard Promise controller? If not, I would *think* you could disable it in BIOS.

-SUO

well i have a hard drive connected to it...

 

[Gotham33]

bump

 

[SUOrangeman]

Although I am not familiar with the motherboard, I assume that there are other IDE ports that are controlled by the native chipset, and not the onboard Promise controller. Are all of those ports in use? If not, you should be able to move the drive to the native controller.

-SUO

 

[Gotham33]

Originally posted by: SUOrangeman
Although I am not familiar with the motherboard, I assume that there are other IDE ports that are controlled by the native chipset, and not the onboard Promise controller. Are all of those ports in use? If not, you should be able to move the drive to the native controller.

-SUO

native controller?
every pci slot is used with the SATA card in.

 

[SUOrangeman]

According to this photo, there are two pairs of IDE controllers (near bottom). Two of them are native to the chipset, while the other two are ties to the onboard Promise controller. While I'm not familiar with the board, but I would *guess* that the pair near the floppy connector are ties to the native chipset while the pair to the left are on the Promise controller. Which ports are you using?

-SUO

 

[Gotham33]

well i think the ones that im using are ata100 or 133 or whatever while the other is ata66 i think. im using the one on the left

 

[Gotham33]

anything else i could try? tonight ill take out the firewire and ethernet cards and try it in both those slots with nothing else

 

[SUOrangeman]

If my assumption is correct, then you are using the onboard Promise controller. While I cannot guarantee things will work, perhaps you can try using the other IDE connectors, disabling the motherboard's Promise controller in BIOS, and adding your SATA controller.

-SUO