First reseat the card, and ALL ribbon cables. This has been a recurring
problem for me on some PCs with Ultra 100's133s. It has even occurred to me
after putting on new cables
Still a problem, then reinstall the drivers.... or switch from XP drivers
to Promise drivers.
You do have it in a unshared PCI slot right?
If that doesn't help then try re-flashing your BIOS... note if you have a
Maxtor or WD version of the Ultra 133 TX2 then make sure you use their
flash and or drivers.
If it isn't fixed then, if possible, boot into another OS, or put it in
another computer, which will tell you right away if this is a hardware problem.
If nothing helps then it is time to check your warranty. I think this is
two years, Promise is good about it but make sure you try it in another PC
before calling.
At 06:47 AM 1/29/2006, you wrote:
Understand recent traffic about the Promise ultra133 tx2 eide controller,
sort of.
I have not had any trouble, until today. My U133 is now showing up with
the hated
yellow exclamation point in DM. I have tried to reinstall drivers and/or
un-install the
device several times without much luck. I do notice that no matter where I
point W2K
for the drivers, W2K chooses its' own location, completes the install,
and, again fails.
For some reason W2K just will not do/go where I sent it. Odd?
I do notice the W2K (sp4 pro) seems to have created oem0.inf through
oem15.inf in
the winnt/system32/inf location. Several of the these numbered oemx.inf
files do
discuss the Promise U133 controller at 3 different driver versions, the
default MS version,
the Promise v2.0.29, and the Promise v2.0.43. The v2.0.43 was was running
before the machine was shutdown for a case change.
Can the "promise-related oemx.inf files be deleted from the inf directory?
Will this clean-up or reset the 0000-0005 keys in the "control set 001"
area of the registry?
It does seem that something is badly scrambled, but I'm confused about
where to start any
un-scramble work. I do NOT find any hidden installs for the controller in
safe mode either.
Ideas, tweaks, suggestions are welcome. Thanks
Duncan
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