Before anyone installs Win2K on A7V, copy the Promise100-ATA driver from the ASUS's Drivers CD-rom into a Floppy Disk. The files you need are the first 3 in the Promise100-ATA folder + the Win2000 folder with its 3 files inside. You need to keep the Win2000 folder intact.
Keep the HDD connection on the Promise100-ATA, you do not need to change it to the usual ATA66.
In BIOS remember to set the SCSI/RAID bootable.
Boot using the Win2K CD-rom (much faster) or make the Win2k Boot-Up disk (4 needed) [loading time very slow at 30 mins running on A7V Duron 900Mhz].
When Win2K installation CD boots, it will display a choice at the bottom of the screen asking "Press F6 to add additional SCSI/RAID IDE controller" Do it fast, or else start again if you missed the train.
So Press F6, it then asks you to press if you have additional disk or [ENTER] to skip/continue. And so you press and place the driver disk into A: and [ENTER]
After reading it will say "Win2000 Promise bla bla bla loaded"
After this, all will run smooth, when Win2K installation completes, you do not need to reinstall the Promise100 driver because it is already done.
This way you also do not need to unplug the Promise100 connection to ATA66 everytime you need to re/install Win2K
One perculiar thing I noticed on my machine. Mass Storage Device is support to use IRQ=10, WinME stated 10, but in Win2k it state IRQ=09, why? can anyone explain?
Extra advice
Remember to immediately create an "Emergency Repair Disk"
Immediately install "Recovery Console"
Read Win2k help files for instructions.
If Win2k crashes, never wants to boot up ever, clogged performace, which ever case that you need to reinstall the whole thing. NO!!! don't do it.
Restart the computer using the installation CD, select Repair Win2k installtion, select replace all files to original state.
Use either [M]anual replace to [A]ll replace, which ever you prefer.
I used the Manual replace and it tells me the exact file that was changed since original state, the folder it was in and so on.
For my case around 25 files was replaced and the entire process was around 1 min.
Win2k restarts and like new, better still all drivers are intact. It replaces all the .ini files and etc.
The only down sides are that residual files of other stuffs are still around. I also do not know if the registry is new, perhaps not.
No matter what it worked very well for me, I hope this option is available on Win9x as well.
Best regards
Fa Cheng CHIN<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by fcchin on 11/27/00 08:10 AM.</EM></FONT></P>
Keep the HDD connection on the Promise100-ATA, you do not need to change it to the usual ATA66.
In BIOS remember to set the SCSI/RAID bootable.
Boot using the Win2K CD-rom (much faster) or make the Win2k Boot-Up disk (4 needed) [loading time very slow at 30 mins running on A7V Duron 900Mhz].
When Win2K installation CD boots, it will display a choice at the bottom of the screen asking "Press F6 to add additional SCSI/RAID IDE controller" Do it fast, or else start again if you missed the train.
So Press F6, it then asks you to press
After reading it will say "Win2000 Promise bla bla bla loaded"
After this, all will run smooth, when Win2K installation completes, you do not need to reinstall the Promise100 driver because it is already done.
This way you also do not need to unplug the Promise100 connection to ATA66 everytime you need to re/install Win2K
One perculiar thing I noticed on my machine. Mass Storage Device is support to use IRQ=10, WinME stated 10, but in Win2k it state IRQ=09, why? can anyone explain?
Extra advice
Remember to immediately create an "Emergency Repair Disk"
Immediately install "Recovery Console"
Read Win2k help files for instructions.
If Win2k crashes, never wants to boot up ever, clogged performace, which ever case that you need to reinstall the whole thing. NO!!! don't do it.
Restart the computer using the installation CD, select Repair Win2k installtion, select replace all files to original state.
Use either [M]anual replace to [A]ll replace, which ever you prefer.
I used the Manual replace and it tells me the exact file that was changed since original state, the folder it was in and so on.
For my case around 25 files was replaced and the entire process was around 1 min.
Win2k restarts and like new, better still all drivers are intact. It replaces all the .ini files and etc.
The only down sides are that residual files of other stuffs are still around. I also do not know if the registry is new, perhaps not.
No matter what it worked very well for me, I hope this option is available on Win9x as well.
Best regards
Fa Cheng CHIN<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by fcchin on 11/27/00 08:10 AM.</EM></FONT></P>
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