On Tuesday 17 December 2002 09:18 pm, Joseph Braddock wrote: > On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 19:43, Lorne wrote: > > On Monday 16 December 2002 03:34 pm, Joe Braddock wrote: > > > Is it possible that the size is too large for your bios? Most of the > > > large WD drives come with floppy to install ez-bios or something like > > > that on the drive to overwrite the system's drive table. Problem is, > > > if you're booting from CD-ROM, the system never get's the chance to > > > read the new drive table from the hard drive. If you think that may be > > > the problem, the solution I've used is to first boot from the hard > > > drive and once the new drive table loads, reboot (without powering off) > > > and put the CD in. The system usually doesn't clear out the new drive > > > table. > > > > > > Joeb > > > > No, I don't think so. It is a brand new motherboard. however... it DID > > come with a special ide controller card. Seems that WD drives are junk > > based on another thread. :( > > Do you know the make of the special IDE controller card? Also, besides the > card is there an on-board IDE? If you are using the card, is the on-board > IDE disabled? Finally, if you are using the card, what happens if you > remove it and use the on-board ide (or vice versa if you are using the > on-board)? > It is a promise card. PCI. There is two on board controllers. A regular 2 channel, and a raid ide controller. So now I'm out of control with IDE! :) I do NOT have the on board controller disabled, but I could pretty easily eh? The raid controller doesn't even recognize it. I didn't even try the other raid controller. My guess is that I need to update the bios on this mb. After all it is getting pretty old. I've had it 4 months. ;)
> Joeb
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