Hi Wayne n all, On 26 March 2005 07:25am Wayne Johnson wrote: Doesn't the SCSI card have it's own BIOS ? My 2940U2W does & once I set that to bootable it doesn't matter what I have the boot sequence set at in the mombos bios therefore I would have to turn that off 1st before I start messing with the rest of it.
On Monday 27 March 2006 00:01, Wayne Johnson wrote: > At 11:14 AM 3/26/2006, Gaffer typed: > >Yes ! That happens because the bios on the SCSI card is read before > > the bios on the mainboard. Am I misunderstanding here ! If you set the SCSI to be the boot device, it is able to overide the mainboard bios settings because its bios is read first !! > It has never been on the systems that I've used SCSI in before. I've > always gotten the mainboard bios posting on screen before the SCSI > card bios posted to the screen but fortunately the SCSI cards bios > always let me turn off the bootable drives so it's been a none issue. > > >Some bios will let you change that behaviour ! > > Haven't seen that either but that certainly doesn't mean a whole lot > as there are lots of things I've not seen. If you want to see things > you can't anywhere else go a bar in Tijuana, MX. ;-) > > ----------+---------- > Wayne D. Johnson > Ashland, OH, USA 44805 > <http://www.wavijo.com> FWIW. I have a Gigabyte mainboard with an Award bios ! It too will let me change the order of boot ! But only if I turn off SCSI card boot capability. When I do this I can choose which type of device I want to boot with first. -- Best Regards: Derrick. Pontefract Linux Users Group. plug at play-net.co.uk -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
