I have an Biostar M7NCD Pro mobo with two Promise cards in it. The first is an Ultra TX2 100 that I have a WD 250GB HD connected to IDE1 and it's configured as my boot drive. The second is a Fastrack 100 that I have in RAID 0 configuration with 2 80GB HD's.
When I upgraded the BIOS from the 12/03 BIOS to the new 7/30 BIOS, all my Promise cards disappeared and no matter what I did, I could not get them back. I couldn't boot from the drive connected to my Ultra TX2 and I when I did boot (removed the boot drive off of the card and connected it directly to the mobo) I couldn't get it to see the RAID either. Tried pretty much every config for the first boot device in BIOS (HD0, HD1, SCSI, etc). I tried everything I knew of physically, removing the card, reinstalling the cards, only putting in 1 card at a time, drivers, etc.
Luckily I saved a copy of the 12/03 BIOS and when I reflashed back to that version all of my Promise PCI cards came back up without any problems or me having to do anything. Literally, flash, reboot, everything came up. POST check straight to the Promise Ultra TX2 BIOS screen to booting up.
Anybody hear of anything like this before? My understanding after 2 hours of research on the Promise website is that this should've been detected by the mobo BIOS as it's a PnP card without any drivers, boot loaders, etc, necessary.
Things are okay now when I went back to the old BIOS, but I'm just curious as to why this has happened.
Oh...config in case it helps...
WinXP SP2
AXP 2500+@3200+
2 x 512MB Kingston Value RAM running at PC3200
1 x WD 250GB HD (boot drive on Ultra TX2 100)
1 x Maxtor 80GB HD (in RAID0 config on Fastrack 100)
1 x Hitachi 80GB HD (in RAID0 config on Fastrack 100)
1 x Memorex DVD+/-RW (IDE1 on mobo)
1 x Khpyermedia CD-RW (IDE2 on mobo)
When I upgraded the BIOS from the 12/03 BIOS to the new 7/30 BIOS, all my Promise cards disappeared and no matter what I did, I could not get them back. I couldn't boot from the drive connected to my Ultra TX2 and I when I did boot (removed the boot drive off of the card and connected it directly to the mobo) I couldn't get it to see the RAID either. Tried pretty much every config for the first boot device in BIOS (HD0, HD1, SCSI, etc). I tried everything I knew of physically, removing the card, reinstalling the cards, only putting in 1 card at a time, drivers, etc.
Luckily I saved a copy of the 12/03 BIOS and when I reflashed back to that version all of my Promise PCI cards came back up without any problems or me having to do anything. Literally, flash, reboot, everything came up. POST check straight to the Promise Ultra TX2 BIOS screen to booting up.
Anybody hear of anything like this before? My understanding after 2 hours of research on the Promise website is that this should've been detected by the mobo BIOS as it's a PnP card without any drivers, boot loaders, etc, necessary.
Things are okay now when I went back to the old BIOS, but I'm just curious as to why this has happened.
Oh...config in case it helps...
WinXP SP2
AXP 2500+@3200+
2 x 512MB Kingston Value RAM running at PC3200
1 x WD 250GB HD (boot drive on Ultra TX2 100)
1 x Maxtor 80GB HD (in RAID0 config on Fastrack 100)
1 x Hitachi 80GB HD (in RAID0 config on Fastrack 100)
1 x Memorex DVD+/-RW (IDE1 on mobo)
1 x Khpyermedia CD-RW (IDE2 on mobo)
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