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More info?)
I was using 1019 when it failed. I just upgraded in the vain hope that
a newer BIOS would fix the problem. If you think of anything let me
know..
On 26 Feb 2005 21:22:06 -0600, Nickeldome <test@test.uk> wrote:
>One more thougt tho. Have you tried an older bios like 1019
>as well ? You never know....
>
>Nickeldome
>
>Montana Pete <> wrote:
>>It is, it is....Strange indeed. Yes, I have tried different CD's. I
>>reflashed the bios to the latest one, 1021d-02. I made sure I reset
>>all the BIOS settings after the flash. Since then I have tried every
>>combination I can think of in the BIOS settings and still no-go. One
>>of these days I am going to take a couple of hours and see if I can
>>track it down. Thanks for the thoughts.
>>
>>On 22 Feb 2005 19:56:49 -0600, Nickeldome <test@test.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>Well, this is very strange. Especially because it would boot the other
>>>day and after that it refuses. Strange thing is, you can boot when
>>>loading the driver from floppy, but you can't when booting directly
>>>from the bios. You could try to reflash the bios, because to me it
>>>sounds there is something wrong there, but it's just a long shot.
>>>I presume you've tried different cd's .....
>>>
>>>Nickeldome
>>>
>>>Montana Pete <> wrote:
>>>>That's the theory alright. Almost all that is happening. The cdrom is
>>>>recognized as a boot disk, then drive A: is assigned the cdrom boot
>>>>disk and physical drive A: is assigned to drive B: (it says) but when
>>>>the system actually tries to boot it can't find the boot disk portion
>>>>of the CD. It then goes down the list and tries to read the physical
>>>>floppy drive A: and then it tries to read the SATA DVD drive. So
>>>>somewhere along the way that assignment of A: to the boot portion of
>>>>the CD is lost. The strange thing is that up until a few days ago
>>>>(last Wednesday to be exact) this used to work. The next day it
>>>>wouldn't work, and I hadn't even touched the computer. I have tried
>>>>every setting I can think of in the BIOS to get this to fly.
>>>>Everything looks ok, the cdrom shows up as an available boot device
>>>>indicating that the bios knows its a bootable CD, it just can't be
>>>>found when it actually goes to boot.
>>>>
>>>>On 19 Feb 2005 18:46:57 -0600, Nickeldome <test@test.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Your cdrom bootdisk will become a: . The content of the cd will become
>>>>>whatever driveletter is assigned to it from the system. If you have HD
>>>>>partitions c: and d: your cdrom will become e: . When booting from floppy
>>>>>your cdrom is not the bootdevice, but will only be reconized as romdrive
>>>>>e: because of the drivers loaded from a: . It is possible to just boot from
>>>>>cdrom, but you have to make sure the settings are correct in both the
>>>>>bios from the scsicard and from the P4C800E. Make sure you see it
>>>>>listed in the bootsequence screen and put is just below the floppy.
>>>>>Then it should work. If you do not see it listed, there is something
>>>>>wrong with the setting of your scsicard bios.
>>>>>
>>>>>Nickeldome
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Montana Pete <> wrote:
>>>>>>Replying to my own post:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I found out what was going on . Although the bios on the controller
>>>>>>card said that the bootable CD had been assigned to drive a: and drive
>>>>>>a: was now drive B:; it lied, or the bios over-rode it. In any event I
>>>>>>took the floppy that I used to make the bootable CD and put it in
>>>>>>drive a:. The system then boots from the floppy and loads the carom
>>>>>>drivers, makes the carom the default drive and loads Norton Ghost just
>>>>>>as if it booted from the carom. All works fine. It is just irritating
>>>>>>that I have to put the floppy in every time I want to take a ghost
>>>>>>image when the system would actually boot from the CD just a few days
>>>>>>ago.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>On Fri, 18 Feb. 2005 14:17:02 -0700, Montana Pete <> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I have a P4C800E with a Plextor SATA DVD drive. I want to run the DVD
>>>>>>>drive in enhanced mode for performance when reading and writing DVD's
>>>>>>>but I also want to be able to boot into DOS to run Norton Ghost. I
>>>>>>>also have a couple of Plextor UltraPlex SCSI drives on this system. Up
>>>>>>>until yesterday everything worked fine. If I wanted to boot from a CD
>>>>>>>I put it in the first UltraPlex drive and rebooted the system. Then I
>>>>>>>hit F8, got the popup boot menu, selected the plextor SCSI CD-ROM
>>>>>>>drive from the list and booted successfully. Today, al of a sudden,
>>>>>>>the system tries to boot from the SATA DVD drive, and since it is
>>>>>>>empty I get a "Put a disk in the drive stupid" message. But, of
>>>>>>>course, if I do it croaks because DOS can't handle a DVD running in
>>>>>>>enhanced mode.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I have reset the BIOS to it's defaults and then reconfigured all the
>>>>>>>settings. I am running the latest BIOS. I have checked the settings in
>>>>>>>the SCSI controller and it is fine. For some reason, all of a sudden,
>>>>>>>it wants to go to that SATA drive even though I have selected the SCSI
>>>>>>>drive from the list.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Anyone have any ideas?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
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