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Scsi and ATA not working together for me??

Mustanggt

Mustanggt

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Hi, I just setup up a Scsi hard drive Seagate 15K.3 this thing flys, anyways I cant get system to run at all with my Maxtor ATA drive hooked up with it, I am running a Epox 8RDA+ XP 1800 Adaptec 29160 Scsi card, I even pulled out all the scsi hardware and my bios wont even detect my ATA drive running all alone, I tested the ATA drive in other system and it gets detected so its my motherboard, ??? this ATA drive was working fine just before I installed Scsi
 
If you have any low-rpm or variable-rpm fans attached to the motherboard's 3-pin fan headers, remove them and power them from the PSU. Sounds crazy, but this has proven to be an issue and EPoX is working on a fix. Once that's taken care of, go into the motherboard's BIOS and into Standard CMOS Setup and see if you can get it to detect the IDE drive using the menus in there, or reset them all to Auto.

If I'm missing the mark and the BIOS has been detecting the drive but won't try to boot from it, maybe it's a boot-order issue, but from how you described it, that doesn't seem like what you're up against. Good luck. 🙂
 
No I dont have any fans pluged into board, They are all to the PSU, I go into bios with no scsi hardware in my system and the ATA drive and CD hooked up and wont detect hard drive or cd and if it does detect cd I get weird symbols showing its name?? soon as I pull ATA drive out and scsi back in alls good ATA CD drive and Scsi work fine together
 
Board's been spoiled rotten by that Cheetah 15k.3. You'd better send it to me, so it doesn't corrupt any more of your systems 😀

Ok, but seriously, how about this: clear CMOS, see what happens. If nothing improves, try disabling USB keyboard support in the BIOS. If that doesn't help, make sure you're at default clockspeed and then flash to the latest 1/17/2003 BIOS, if you're not there already, and then disable USB keyboard support again.
 
Thanks for help, I did get ATA drive working but even with bios set to boot scsi It keep booting to ATA drive now, I am tired and will continue tommorow trying to figure out how to have my Scsi as boot and ATA as non boot,
 
What was the key to getting the mobo to see the IDE drive, or were you able to be sure?
 
I have no idea lol this Epox 8RDA+ is the most tempermental board I have ever owned, I Am thinking about taking it out back for target practise 🙂
 
I am running at default 133 FSB and system feels as fast as it did running at 206 FSB with old hard drive, what a difference a fast hard drive makes in performance.( Drive index- 490670 KB/s sandra)
 
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