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WD 2000JB + k7s5a boot problems

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slayer1001

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whenever i have the 2000jb in (on the provided controller card) my system, a k7s5a with athlonXP 1400+ it wont boot. i dont get a beep or anything.

anyone have any ideas?
could the card be broken or something?
it seems to work just fine when i take the pci card back out.

thanks!
 
Dead card, then.
Connect the drive on the board's own IDE channels. That's actually faster than being on a PCI card. Remember, PCI is the slowest bus in a modern PC.
 
OCWorkbench has an excellent section in their forum that deals with these Motherboards.

They even have an iso file that contains all the BIOS files for this board ,both official and overclocking.
 
thanks, i'll check those msg boards out.

i didnt think the mobo had 48bit addressing so i was trying to use the card. i also already have 4 drives on the mobo, so the card was a nice idea. i guess i could take out my 30gb hdd

thanks!

 
i found some good info on the oc workbench forum about the 48bit addressing but i had a question and as their site wasnt accepting new registrations i decided to ask here.

it says you need to upgrade your windows xp to sp1 or upgrade 2k to sp3 for 48bit support in windows.

however i wanted to do a clean install of windows (probably 2k) onto the 200gb. i figured the 8mb cache would give me better performance if i was using it as my boot drive over my 2mb cache drives. is there something i would need to do for that? or do i just install windows onto a partition that the windows installer makes then get sp3 and add more partitions later

does this work or will it mess something up?

thanks
 
You indeed need XP SP1 or 2K SP3 for 48-bit LBA mode. This is independent of whether it's on a PCI controller or the mainboard's own IDE channels - the BIOS controlling the drive must support it, and since ECS's does, there's really no point in putting a controller onto the slow PCI bus rather than using the fast internal IDE.

If you don't have SP-ized installation CDs for your WIndows of choice, you willl have to make your system partition <=128 GBytes (you won't have a choice), then install the service pack, enable 48-bit LBA by registry modification (in W2K at least), and then, when you have access to the entire drive, add partitions to use the full size.
 
thanks peter,
that was exactly what i needed to hear.

i wasnt sure if i could make a partition first then add more partitions later.


i checked the card in someone elses computer, and theirs wont boot either, so im guessing the card is fried somehow; i guess i'll ask WD to replace it since i need it to hold a drive or two.


thanks everyone for all your help
 
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